Can cystitis cause frequent urination? Is frequent urination in women a bladder infection? Many people think that frequent urination is not a disease, especially many women who have given birth think that they will have more or less frequent urination in middle age after having children. This is a misconception because in addition to being a sign of cystitis and early cancer, it can also be a sign of interstitial cystitis.
The specific signs of interstitial cystitis are: frequent urination, urgency, nocturia, and pain in the lower abdomen. The consequences may lead to bladder fibrosis, which reduces bladder capacity and even ureteral reflux, resulting in renal edema and kidney inflammation. The pain may increase during urination and may be located in the urethra and perineum, and the pain must wait until after urination to be relieved. There are currently about 100,000 patients with interstitial cystitis in China, with women accounting for nearly 86%. If not treated in a timely manner, the bladder capacity will become smaller and smaller, and in advanced stages may even lead to bladder fibrosis, so that patients may have to live with urine bags or adult diapers for life, with quality of life greatly affected.
Most current treatments for interstitial cystitis use oral medications, bladder irrigation, pelvic muscle group therapy, and vegetative bladder mucosal injections, etc. Patients will be better treated if they also improve their personal habits.