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To Anyone with a Problem Bladder: You Are Not Alone! |
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1 The Bladder and Its Co-workers |
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5 | (11) |
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The Kidneys: The Body's Waste Water Treatment Plant |
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6 | (3) |
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The Ureters: The Bladder's Pipes |
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9 | (1) |
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The Bladder: Muscular Tupperware for Our Urine |
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10 | (2) |
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The Urethra: Wee-Slide to the World Outside |
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12 | (1) |
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The Urethral Sphincters, The Body's Bouncers: `You're not getting in I mean out!' |
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13 | (1) |
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The Pelvic Floor: The Mighty Sling Holding Everything Together |
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14 | (2) |
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2 Tinkling, Piddling, Peeing |
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Things to Know about Urinating |
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16 | (1) |
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Opening the Floodgates: How Peeing Works |
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16 | (3) |
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Sitting Pretty: How to Go to the Toilet Properly |
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19 | (3) |
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Why Do We Get Thirsty and Need to Drink, Anyway? |
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22 | (2) |
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Going to the Toilet: How Often is Actually Normal? |
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24 | (2) |
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Too Much Tinkling? Why You Might Have to Go More Often |
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26 | (5) |
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Foods That Excite the Bladder and Fuel the Urge to Pee |
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31 | (4) |
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Drinks That Fill the Bladder Up More Slowly |
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35 | (1) |
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Why Women Need to Go to the Toilet More Often Than Men |
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36 | (1) |
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How Small Children Learn to Control Their Urge to Pee |
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36 | (4) |
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OMG: Can Your Bladder Really Burst? |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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Paruresis, aka Bashful Bladder: The Fear of Public Urination |
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42 | (3) |
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What Happens When You Hold Urine In for Too Long? |
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45 | (1) |
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Is it Bad to Go Too Often? |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (3) |
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Asparagus Urine: You Pee What You Eat - Or Do You? |
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51 | (1) |
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What the Smell of Your Urine Can Tell You |
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52 | (2) |
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How Pregnancy Tests Work and Other Things Urine Can Show Us |
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54 | (2) |
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Yellow, Golden, Transparent: All the Colours of the Urine Rainbow |
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56 | (1) |
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Bladder Stones & Co.: Why the Bladder and Its Friends Don't Like Being Loaded Down |
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57 | (4) |
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3 Annoying and Painful: Urinary Tract Infections |
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61 | (24) |
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62 | (1) |
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Honeymoon Cystitis: Why Sex Often Heralds a UTI |
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63 | (3) |
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Sex-Related UTIs: When Your Bacteria Just Don't Get Along |
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66 | (1) |
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Baby, It's Cold Outside: UTIs from Getting Chilled? |
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67 | (1) |
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Why You Get UTIs More Often Than Your Friends |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (2) |
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72 | (1) |
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Is Cranberry Really a Magic Bullet in the Fight Against UTIs? |
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73 | (2) |
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Simple and Complicated UTIs |
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75 | (1) |
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Hello Again! UTIs on Repeat |
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76 | (3) |
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Constant Pain in the Bladder: The Dreaded Interstitial Cystitis |
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79 | (2) |
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Why Men Get UTIs Less Often Than Women |
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81 | (4) |
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4 Bladder Dysfunction: When Your Bladder Goes Crazy and You Can't Pee Properly Anymore |
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85 | (56) |
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Overactive Bladder: When Peeing Is a Full-Time Job |
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86 | (2) |
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Pumped-Up Bladder Muscles and Other Causes of OAB |
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88 | (3) |
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10 Things You Know If You Have to Go a Lot |
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91 | (1) |
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Treating an Overactive Bladder |
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92 | (4) |
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Botox, Muscle Relaxation, Electrical Currents: Alternative Treatment Options |
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96 | (5) |
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Nocturia: The Nightmare of Constantly Needing to Go at Night |
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101 | (2) |
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Out and About and Your Bladder Niggles: Suppressing the Urge to Pee |
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103 | (4) |
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Contracted Bladder: Can Your Bladder Really Shrink? |
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107 | (1) |
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Battening Down the Hatches: Why You Can't Empty Your Bladder Properly |
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108 | (14) |
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Other Reasons Your Bladder Might Act Up |
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122 | (6) |
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The First Time: Bracing Yourself to Visit a Doctor |
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128 | (9) |
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Alternative Treatment Options |
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137 | (4) |
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5 Home and Dry? Bladder Weakness and Incontinence |
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141 | (28) |
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Stress Incontinence, aka the `Oops' Moment |
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142 | (9) |
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`It's Urgentl' Urge Incontinence |
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151 | (3) |
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When Two Become One: Mixed Incontinence |
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154 | (1) |
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Constant Dripping: Overflow Incontinence |
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155 | (1) |
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When the Bladder Is Innocent: Reflex Incontinence |
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156 | (1) |
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Not Funny: Giggle Incontinence |
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156 | (1) |
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Coital Incontinence: When You Feel Something Coming and It's Not Just an Orgasm |
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157 | (2) |
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Incontinence: What to Expect at the Urologist's |
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159 | (2) |
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The Four Levels of Incontinence |
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161 | (3) |
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When You Wake Up and the Bed Is Wet: Enuresis |
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164 | (1) |
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The House Door Phenomenon, aka Latchkey Incontinence |
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165 | (4) |
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6 You're Pregnant? What Your Bladder Has to Say About It |
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169 | (8) |
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Incontinence During Pregnancy |
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172 | (1) |
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Snoozing the Urge to Pee During Pregnancy |
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172 | (2) |
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174 | (1) |
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The Baby Is Herel Now What? The Bladder After Pregnancy |
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174 | (3) |
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7 Bladder Care: How to Keep Your Bladder Healthy |
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177 | (17) |
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177 | (3) |
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180 | (1) |
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Eat a Healthy, Well-Balanced Diet |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (1) |
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Ensure Your Spine Is Supple and Healthy |
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184 | (1) |
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Say Yes to Intimate Care, But Please Don't Go Overboard |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (3) |
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Pay Attention to Your Fitness |
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189 | (1) |
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The Bladder as the Mirror of the Soul |
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189 | (5) |
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8 Funny Facts About the Bladder |
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194 | (12) |
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194 | (2) |
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Can Someone Else's Urine Kill You? |
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196 | (1) |
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The Strange Pee-haviour of Animals |
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197 | (2) |
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An Easter Egg with a Difference |
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199 | (1) |
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Pee Power: `Go Ahead and Pee, I Need Some Light' |
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200 | (1) |
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Insane in the Mucous Membrane: The World's Largest Urinary Stone |
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201 | (1) |
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To Pee or Not to Pee, and Other (Un)Necessary Knowledge |
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201 | (5) |
| Thanks |
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206 | (3) |
| Endnotes |
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209 | (2) |
| References |
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211 | (2) |
| Index |
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