Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

How Bedtime Drinks Affect Your Bladder #shorts #enlargedprostate #BPH #naturalremedies

4 May 2024 · 1 min

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Anne Truong MD explains how drinks affect nighttime bathroom trips: stop water two hours before bed, caffeine five hours before, and alcohol three to four hours before. These irritate the bladder and trigger nocturia, wrecking sleep.

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About two hours before going to bed.

About five hours before bedtime.

At least three to four hours before bedtime.

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Try to limit water before you go to bed. Just decrease drinking water maybe two hours before going to bed and avoid caffeine or coffee or tea five hours before bedtime, and limiting alcohol at least three to four hours before bedtime. Because all this can irritate the bladder. And when you irritate the bladder, you're going to urinate more often at night. Because sometimes the symptoms of going to urinate at nighttime the most bothersome because you can't sleep, you can't sleep, you feel tired the next day and it affects your thinking, it affects your whole well being and your quality of life. So something to consider.