Night urination
As for the healthy people, their urine of 24 hours is up to 1.5L to 2L. Urine at night is one quarter to one half of urine in day time. After dinner, people tend not to drink or eat something and metabolism as well as blood circulation slows down, so initial urine will be reabsorbed thoroughly in kidney tubules and accordingly urine at night is less than urine in daytime. If urine at night is more than 750mL or the volume of urine in daytime, there must be something worry with reabsorbing of kidney tubules. How to Shrink the Cyst With Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD)
Reasons for increasing night urination
At the late stages of PKD, especially getting Kidney Failure, patients usually suffer from edema and heart diseases. Excess water depositing in body and unable to draining out in daytime, when we lie down at night, more blood will flow back to heart and the blood in kidney also increase. As more blood is filtrated in kidneys, volume of urine will be elevated. This kind of night urination is often found among patients with heart diseases. Available Treatment Options for Polycytic Kidney Disease
Another reason is that kidneys fail in draining out all the metabolic waste in daytime. With few exercise or excess of secretion like sweating, more wastes and water will come out along with urine at night. Patients with chronic renal insufficiency are often bothered by this kind of night urination.
It must be cleared out that frequent urination at night caused by mental problems does not belong to increasing night urination. Is There Any Cure for Polycystic Kidney Disease
Night urination in Polycystic Kidney Disease Frequent Urination At Night Due To PKD
As Polycystic Kidney Disease develops, the growth of cysts stressed other renal tissues and cause anoxia in kidneys, which provoke renal fibrosis. At the late stages of PKD, fibrous tissues will replace the normal renal tissues, causing glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis. During the course of renal fibrosis, reabsorption of kidney tubules will be weakened, making more initial urine be released and increasing volume of urine at last.
Therefore, people with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) should pay more attention to night urine and take early treatment if it is increasing.
