If you wake up often at night to pee, you might wonder if something’s wrong. Most adults don’t need to go to the bathroom more than once during 6-8 hours in bed. If you do, doctors call it nocturia. It might signal a problem like diabetes.
Why Could It Be Diabetes?
One of the most common early signs of diabetes is a need to pee more often during the day. But it can also happen at night.
When there’s too much sugar in your blood, which happens if you have diabetes, your kidneys have to work harder to get rid of it. This forces them to make more urine. The process doesn’t stop just because you’re snoozing. Diabetes can also damage your kidneys or bladder. Both can cause you to pee more.
Other Reasons You Pee at Night
Diabetes is just one reason you might be waking often to use the bathroom. There are lots of others, including:
Age. As years pass, your body makes less of a hormone that limits the amount of urine you make at night. So there’s more in your bladder. Aging also affects how much urine your bladder can hold.
Drinking too much. Whether it’s water or drinks with caffeine or alcohol, too much before bedtime can fill your bladder and wake you up.
Diabetes insipidus. Unrelated to type 1 or 2 diabetes, this condition causes your kidneys to make too much urine.
Other things that could have you up often to pee include: A urinary tract infection (UTI), heart failure, an enlarged prostate, pregnancy, chronic kidney failure, tumor in your bladder or prostate, liver failure, sleep apnea.
(WebMD)
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