Other names: nocturia, frequent urination at night, frequent distractions to the toilet at night, frequent nocturnal micturition

During sleep, healthy kidneys secrete less urine than during the day, so we can sleep without interruption until dawn. If at night, the patient several times to get up, walked to the bathroom without it was caused by increased fluid intake before bedtime or diuretics (medicines which increase urine production in the kidneys), says the physician that the patient is suffering from nocturia.

Nocturia usually indicative of bladder irritation (eg infection) or by hindering emptying the bladder, such as the prostate hypertrophied.

Also, some metabolic diseases such as diabetes, can be delivered by the need to urinate in the night, the patient, in this case also suffer thirst. These diseases are manifested frequent need to urinate during the day.

Increased production of urine during the night, however, also may cause heart failure or certainkidney diseases, kidney blood flow better when lying facilitate the work of the kidneys, and they are thus trying to catch up on neglected during the day.