Symptoms of Urinary Tract Diseases

Do you have the following symptoms? May be you are having a urinary tract disease.

There are many diseases that can affect the urinary tract, but many of them can be identified by the urinary symptoms you have. The disease can be guessed by checking the kind of symptoms you have. I will briefly explain what are those symptoms are.

We divide urinary tract symptoms in to two categories. They are,

1. 1.      Obstructive features

1. 2.      Storage/ irritative features

This categorization is very helpful because some diseases cause obstruction, and thereby lead to urinary retention and some reduce the ability of the bladder to store urine.

The obstructive features are,

1.      

• Poor stream

This means that the projectile nature of the urine flow is low.

• 2.      Intermittent stream

This means that the urine is voided little by little intermittently.  You cannot maintain a steady continues flow of urine.

• 3.      Terminal dribbling

In terminal dribbling you may find some drops of urine flowing drop by drop even after you have finished urination.

• 4.      Hesitancy

In hesitancy you find it difficult to start urination. You really want to pass urine, but find it difficult to initiate urination.

The storage/ irritative features are,

• 1.      Precipitancy

Passing urine without knowing.

• 2.      Recent onset nocturnal enuresis

• 3.      Urgency

The patient cannot hold urination when he feels like wanting to pass urine.

• 4.      Nocturia

Passing urine several times in the night.

• 5.      Frequency

Increased number of times you pass urine.

You may have symptoms from either one of the above two categories or symptoms from both.

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