1 week Ago By Cindy Tran
A doctor has warned everyone to stop running to the toilet “just in case” — as the habit can do more harm than good to your bladder over time. Dr Rachel Peck said using the bathroom at the slightest feeling of having to go, despite not really needing to, could lead to increased urgency and frequency — or even leakage. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Doctor explains what really happens to your bladder.
Catch the best deals and products hand-picked by our team at Best Picks “What happens to your bladder when you do a lot of ‘just in case’ peeing?” she asked in a now-viral video. “So ‘just in case’ right before you leave the house or because you’re passing a bathroom or you’re worried you’re not going to find one later when you don’t actually have to go..
. but you’re going ‘just in case’?” The pelvic health physical therapist explained how our bladder has different levels of the sensation of needing to empty. “Normally the bladder fills at a certain rate and, once we get to a certain point, we’ll get the first urge to go and we usually ignore that urge,” she said.
“The (first) urge is just telling us that it’s filling up, it gets a little bit farther and it sends some stronger urges and we may kind of ignore those as well and then, once it gets full, that’s when it sends us the urge like, ‘Hey you actually need to pee now’.” But when you get into the habit of always peeing “just in case”, Dr Peck said you’re actually going to .
