An excerpt from Parade -
A Urogynecologist Is Begging You to Stop Doing This One Super-Common Thing When You Pee
It's probably something you haven't thought about.
By Erica Sweeney
You probably don’t think much about how you pee. You just go. While it’s a natural reflex that you’ve been doing your whole life, the way you pee could be taking a toll on your pelvic floor.
This came up recently in a TikTok video, where TikToker @postvirallife said, “I think I’ve been peeing wrong my entire life.”
Before getting a vaginal ultrasound, she said her technician told her to use the restroom but not to push when she peed. Instead, she was instructed to breathe through her nose and release the pee naturally, and that she’d know when the last drop was out once she felt a warm sensation.
Doctors say this is good advice.@postvirallife Anyone else or just me? #bladderproblems #bladder #interstitialcystisis #chronicillness #uti ♬ original sound - Katie
“Peeing is more about relaxing the pelvic floor muscles and allowing the sphincter to relax and at the same time, the brain has the bladder muscles contract to eliminate urine,” says Dr. Lopa Pandya, MD, a urogynecologist, reconstructive surgeon and medical adviser at Aeroflow Urology.
“So peeing is more of a relaxation action and not a pushing action,” she adds.
https://parade.com/health/what-to-stop-doing-when-you-pee-according-to-urogynecologists
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