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Interesting Facts about Urinary System

What is Urinary System?

The urinary system consists of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. The functions of urinary system are listed below,

  • Remove waste products and drugs from the body.
  • Balance body fluids.
  • Regulates blood pressure.
  • Keep substances stable in the blood (1 Trusted Source
    Anatomy of the Urinary System

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Interesting Facts About the Urinary System

Statistics on the Urinary System:

  1. The human bladder can stretch to hold about 500 ml of urine in women and 700 ml in men (2 Trusted Source
    How does the urinary system work?

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    ).
  2. All the blood in our body is filtered 300 times through the kidneys every day (2 Trusted Source
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  3. Urine stays in the bladder for up to 5 hours before discharge, depending on the amount of liquid consumed if the urinary system is healthy.
  4. The kidney can clean more than 1 million gallons of water in a lifetime, which is more than enough to fill a small lake (3 Trusted Source
    How Your Kidneys Work

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  5. Urine is a blood by product and is non-toxic. It contains 95% water, 2.5% urea, and 2.5% other mixtures of minerals, salts and enzymes (4 Trusted Source
    A New Artificial Urine Protocol to Better Imitate Human Urine

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    ).
  6. If one kidney fails to function and is removed, the other kidney can increase in size by 75% within two months to handle the entire task of filtration (5 Trusted Source
    Kidneys

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Role of Urinary System:

  1. Nerves send signals to the brain when the bladder needs to be emptied, with this indication you will feel the urge to empty your bladder.
  2. The bladder swells into a round shape like a balloon when full and gets smaller when empty. However there should be a control limit that shouldn’t be exceeded in situations where we have had to control our full bladder due to unavailability of a restroom.

Exercise for Bladder Muscle:

  1. You may suffer from stress if the muscles supporting the bladder are weakened. You can help strengthen these by doing pelvic floor exercises (6 Trusted Source
    Kegel exercises - self-care

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Urine Dilution:

  1. Urine is often diluted and added to potted plants in the garden as it has adequate urea content, which is a wonderful source of nitrogen for plants (7 Trusted Source
    Urine: the ultimate 'organic' fertiliser?

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    ).

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Last Updated on May 27, 2023
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