Getting up every night to use the toilet? Often more than once? Waking once or more during the night to urinate is referred to as nocturia. As we get older, we seem to get up more frequently.
Some causes are gender specific. For example, nocturia in men is often linked to an enlarged prostate that blocks the flow of urine from the bladder. Such men fail to fully empty their bladder during the day, sending themselves to bed with a partially full bladder that soon sends a wake-up call to...
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