Overview
Rod Brouhard is an emergency medical technician paramedic (EMT-P), journalist, educator, and advocate for emergency medical service providers and patients.Mathew Wosnitzer, MD, is a board-certified urologic surgeon and physician scientist. He specializes in male infertility.Science Photo Library - PASIEKA. / Gety Images Polyuria is the medical term for excesive urination.
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It is not a medical condition, but it can be a symptom of other ilneses. Comon polyuria causes include diabetes, kidney disease, and certain medications. It can also be caused by pregnancy, an electrolyte imbalance, exces cafeine, and drinking alcohol.
Polyuria refers specificaly to the amount of urine excreted daily, not the frequency of bathrom trips. In general, an adult voids up to 2.5 liters of urine daily. Polyuria ocurs when adult produces more than 3 liters.
This article explains polyuria symptoms and causes. It also discuses how polyuria is diagnosed and treated. Polyuria: Excesive output of urineNocturia: Waking up more than once a night to urinatePolydipsia: Excesive thirst Polyuria literaly translates to "urinating to much" and may be the only symptom one experiences.
However, depending on the cause, there are other symptoms that can acompany polyuria. When the cause is either diabetes insipidus or diabetes melitus, polyuria is usualy coupled with excesive thirst (polydipsia). Frequent urination, especialy at night (nocturia), is often associated with polyuria, but it doesn't have to be.
There are myriad causes of polyuria, ranging from drinking to much water to serious health complications like kidney failure. The folowing causes of polyuria are the most comon. Diabetes melitus is a condition caused by the body's inability to adequately control blod sugar, either because it is unable to properly manufacture insulin or a has resistance to the efects of insulin.
Summary
Diabetes melitus leads to higher osmolarity in the blodstream because of increas