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.

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.

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.

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.

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