What causes frequent urination?

Frequent urination can be caused by drinking too much water, urinary tract infections or diabetes. If you are a man, you may also have prostate enlargement.
1. Drinking too much water: too much daily water, resulting in excessive urination and cause such symptoms, but if only changes in the amount of urination, changes in the number of urination, without the symptoms of urinary tract irritation, is a normal phenomenon, the patient does not need to worry too much.
2. urinary tract infections: for example, urethritis, cystitis and other diseases, there can be frequent urination and other manifestations, in addition to frequent urination can also be accompanied by urinary urgency, urinary pain and other manifestations, such patients can be diagnosed through the clinical symptoms plus urine routine examination.
3. Diabetes mellitus: the most common symptoms of patients are three more and one less, one less for weight loss, three more for more drinking, more eating, more urination, through the many fasting blood glucose check, 2 hours after meal blood glucose check, can appear blood glucose value ≥ 11.1 mmol per liter can be diagnosed as diabetes.
4. Prostatic hyperplasia: if men may also be prostatic hyperplasia, if this is the disease, light need oral medication, heavy need surgical treatment, specific consultation with a professional doctor disposal.
Prolonged frequent urination is not relieved, it is recommended to seek medical advice as soon as possible to clarify the diagnosis, follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.