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
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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
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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
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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
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Role of Urinary System:

7. 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.
8. 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:

9. 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
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Urine Dilution:

10. 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
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