What is the cause of urinary syncope?

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Micturition syncope is also known as sudden urination, commonly known as "urine sickness". The main manifestation is that people suddenly faint when they wake up at night or in the morning to urinate due to short-term loss of consciousness; There will always be a short-term disturbance of consciousness, which is easy to induce urination syncope. It is mainly caused by hypotension caused by vasodilation and contraction disorder, which causes temporary insufficient blood supply to the brain. About two minutes after syncope, the patient can wake up on his own without sequelae. Micturition syncope is more common in middle-aged and elderly men. It usually occurs at night, often suddenly, and without warning. What is the cause of urinary syncope?

What is the cause of urinary syncope?

The disease usually occurs in men aged 16-45, and occasionally in the elderly. Patients often wake up in the morning, at night or after a nap and suddenly faint due to a short loss of consciousness when urinating. Most patients before the onset of dizziness, nausea, panic and other discomfort, but there are some people before fainting without any symptoms of discomfort. This syncope generally occurs in the end of urination, can also occur before urination. The duration of syncope ranged from a few seconds to half an hour. Although the disease has the tendency of repeated attacks, the incidence of different patients is different, some people attack several times in a month, some people only attack 1-2 times in a year. Through clinical observation, it was found that the main predisposing factors of the disease were drinking, insufficient sleep, excessive fatigue, decreased diet or satiety, and body position change.

There is no unified conclusion on how urination syncope is caused. But most experts believe that the disease is mainly caused by hypotension caused by vasodilation and contraction disorders, autonomic nerve dysfunction, arrhythmia, blood pressure fluctuations, and increased pressure in the chest caused by excessive breath holding during urination, resulting in temporary insufficient blood supply to the brain. It is these factors that affect the patient's cardiac output, so that patients with cerebral ischemia and syncope. Two minutes after syncope, the patient can wake up without sequelae.

Although the prognosis of voiding syncope is good, and most patients will stop the onset with age. But because of the onset of patients will suddenly faint, easy to cause trauma, serious will endanger life, so, for patients, how to prevent the occurrence of syncope is very important. After syncope, the patient should lie flat immediately, and then press the patient's Renzhong, Neiguan and Zusanli acupoints with his fingers to wake up as soon as possible. It should be noted that if the patient is suspected to have craniocerebral trauma or cerebral hemorrhage, he should be sent to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment to prevent accidents.

matters needing attention

For those who have frequent urination, they should drink less water before going to bed. When they get up to urinate, they should sit for a while and then stand up to improve their body reaction. Don't urinate too fast or too hard. If dizziness, dizziness, palpitation, leg weakness and other auras occur during urination, immediately grasp the object or immediately change to squat urination. In the past, people with urination syncope took squat position when urinating. Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, neurasthenia and deficiency of both qi and blood are prone to syncope. In addition, body deficiency, excessive fatigue and drinking can also induce the disease.