Why do you wake up at night to pee? The real reason

 

People suffer from nocturia  (1/12)

Many people suffer from nocturia, which is the need to urinate several times during the night.

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It affects everyone  (2/12)

While some men may notice that their prostate glands increase in size as they get older, which can make them want to urinate at night, this problem does not only affect people of a certain age.

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Everyone wakes up in the night to urinate  (3/12)

In fact, all generations can wake up at night because they need to go to the bathroom.

The screens in question  (4/12)

As Dr. Jimmy Mohamed explained on RTL, a new study has drawn a parallel between screen use and nocturia.

 

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High screen time makes you want to urinate more  (5/12)

Result: people who have a high consumption of screens during the day increase by almost 50% the risk of having to urinate at night.

More than five hours on screens  (6/12)

According to the study, this threshold would be crossed after 5 hours of time spent per day on screens, whether television, mobile phone or computer.

 

Une moyenne de quatre heures (7/12)

Alors que la moyenne du temps d’écran en France est de 4 heures par jour, de nombreuses personnes doivent ainsi ressentir le besoin de se lever la nuit pour aller uriner.

En quoi le temps d’écran peut avoir un impact sur le besoin de faire pipi la nuit ? C’est à cause de la lumière des écrans qui perturbent la production de mélatonine, hormone de la nuit permettant un bon endormissement.