Disorders that affect the Urinary System
- Infections: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can cause issues with the kidneys, urethra, or bladder (STIs). Infections like these can occur when bacteria or viruses enter your urinary tract through your urethra. Your doctor might recommend medication to treat an infection.
- Structural issues: Birth abnormalities may affect how an infant’s urinary tract develops. Urination buildup and kidney infections could result from these abnormalities.
- Urinary issues: Loss of bladder control or urinary incontinence (leaks) causes little to major urine leakage. Urinary incontinence is more common in women than in males, particularly during pregnancy or later in life. It can get worse if you laugh, sneeze, cough, or jump.
- Chronic renal disease: The most common causes of the disorder are diabetes and high blood pressure. By controlling your blood pressure and blood sugar, you can drastically lower your risk of kidney disease.
- Interstitial cystitis: sometimes called painful bladder syndrome, this condition causes inflammation of the bladder (swelling and irritation). Physical therapy and medication can be used to lessen the painful bladder syndrome’s signs and symptoms.
How to keep the Urinary System Healthy?
- Drink lots of water: Hydrating your body will help you avoid kidney stones and UTIs while also flushing out your system. To prevent a UTI, consider consuming cranberry juice. Cranberries include substances that may prevent bacterial growth.
- Eat a balanced diet: Foods high in calcium and low in sodium may help prevent kidney stones.
- Safe sex practices: Use a condom to shield yourself from an STI. However, spermicides should be used with caution as they can encourage the growth of germs.
- After having sex, empty your bladder: If you’re a woman, you should go to the bathroom. Quick urination can eliminate bacteria and lower your chances of developing a UTI.
- Practice pelvic floor exercises: Often known as Kegels, to strengthen the muscles in your pelvic floor and lower your risk of incontinence.
Human Urinary System
The process of removing chemicals from the body is known as excretion. Numerous cellular reactions generate diverse excretory products such as urea, uric acid, creatinine, bilirubin, and ammonia. Protein and nucleic acid metabolism’s breakdown products are these excretory by-products. These excretory products need to be removed from the body since a build-up of them can cause a variety of diseases. The three main excretion organs are the kidneys, large intestine, and skin.
Excretory products are eliminated through a variety of methods, including:
- Sweating: Salts, carbon dioxide, urea, and ammonia are all eliminated in very minute quantities through sweat.
- Urine: Urea, uric acid, creatinine, and ammonia are excreted by the kidneys through urine. Urine is also used to eliminate extra ions including Ca2+, Na+, and phosphates. Urine is used for the excretion of numerous medications, poisons, and even too much water.
- Feces: The body excretes minute amounts of water, inorganic salts, bacteria, byproducts of bacterial decomposition, undigested substances, and indigestible food components in feces. The majority of the bilirubin in bile is processed by bacteria in the small intestine and expelled in feces.