Rose Chen – The cause of frequent urination at night and ways to alleviate it

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If you need to get up to urinate more than one time during the night, you may have an overactive bladder at night. This condition is called nocturia.


Nocturia is common, especially as you age.  One in three adults over the age of 30 need to make at least two trips to the bathroom at night. This disrupts your normal sleep cycle and causes sleep loss along with other complications. Rose introduces a few ways that is able to alleviate this problem.

 


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