Why You Wake Up for Pee While Sleeping: Often you must have felt that when you urinate, your deep sleep also gets interrupted. It is very common to suddenly open your eyes due to urination while sleeping. You too must have experienced something like this. Many people think that this happens just because of drinking too much water, but in reality a whole biological process of the body is working behind it. There is a direct connection between sleep and bladder. When the balance between the two deteriorates, sleep is disrupted. Let us understand what happens inside the body at that time.

According to health experts, when we sleep, the body releases a special hormone, which is called anti-diuretic hormone (ADH). This hormone signals the kidneys to produce less urine at night, so that sleep is not interrupted frequently. This is the reason why a healthy person does not have to urinate throughout the night. However, when the level of this hormone decreases due to any reason, the kidneys start producing more urine and the bladder gets filled quickly. Due to this, people have to go to the washroom even at night.

According to doctors, as the bladder fills with urine, the nerves present in its walls feel stretched. These nerves directly send messages to the brain that the bladder is now full. The brain can suppress these signals for some time during the day, but during sleep the brain is more sensitive. As soon as the pressure goes above the prescribed limit, the brain breaks your sleep and wakes you up. Because of this, despite being in deep sleep, you wake up as soon as the urine pressure increases.

If your sleep is already light, then even slight pressure from the bladder due to stress, fatigue, screen time or hormonal imbalance is enough to wake you up. In deep sleep this signal has a delayed effect, but in shallow sleep the body responds immediately. This is the reason why some people’s sleep is disrupted due to frequent urination. Drinking more water, tea, coffee or alcohol before sleeping fills the bladder quickly. Apart from this, diabetes, urine infection, prostate problem, hormonal changes, aging and obesity can also become the causes of urination at night. Sometimes high BP or kidney problems are also the reason for this.

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