Experts weigh in on the factors that can take the tendency to hold one’s pee from harmless to harmful.
When the bladder is begging for relief, ignoring one’s bodily cues for the sake of productivity or lounging around is common.
“When that happens, you can enter a vicious cycle — more leftover urine means more risk for infections.” Consistently overriding bodily signals can make them start to be less evident or not work, experts said. “We see a lot of this happening in nurses and teachers,” Kim said. “They don’t go to the bathroom at all throughout the day when they’re on shift or in the classroom.” If you can’t pee, don’t wait to see if something changes — seek evaluation from a doctor.
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