what causes a healthy 26 year old female to urinate in the bed one night
I had a big cup of apple juice the other night at about 10pm, I went to the bathroom at 11pm and did not fall asleep until 12pm. Sleep through the night woke up at 5pm and realized that i had urinating in the bed.
Marjorie,
Aside from chalking this one incidence up to "these things just happen once in awhile," watch for other types of incontinence and if bedwetting continues for you, consult your doctor. Also see:
Adult Enuresis
http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/45/20610/adult-enuresis/
Best,
MG
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Apple juice is a bladder irritant, which irritates the lining of the bladder, causing it to feel the need to empty more urgently.
You can read more about bladder irritants here:
http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/52/2715/you-eat/
http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/45/1870/caffeine/
Especially since you're so young, I'd certainly recommend that you see a urologist or urogynecologist about the episode so that they can perform some tests and rule out any serious causes. In the meantime, if you experience more leakaage, you may want to try an elimination diet. Simply cut any potential bladder irritants out of your diet (coffee - including decaf, chocolate, apples and apple juices, spicy foods, carbonated beverages, beverages with caffeine, and citric fruits and juices). Then add the foods back into your diet one at a time, one per week. If you start having a problem again, take the latest food back out of your diet again to see if it gets better (keep going back up the list taking foods back out of your diet one at a time until you figure out the culprit). After you figure out which food was causing a problem, keep adding any remaning foods back in one at a time (often you'll be sensitive to more than one food or category).
Hope this helps, but do make sure you see a doctor!
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