What is difficulty urinating? Why does prostate hyperplasia cause difficulty urinating

Dysfunction refers to difficulty urinating, difficulty urinating, thin urination line, and close urination range. Progressive difficulty urinating is a characteristic of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia.

The occurrence of difficulty urinating in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia is gradual and not initially noticed by the elderly. When the initial manifestation is urine, it cannot be discharged immediately and usually takes a few seconds or even minutes to discharge. We call this phenomenon urinary hesitation.

Prolonging, bending, and shrinking of the posterior urethra in benign prostatic tissue, or protrusion of the bladder neck in the middle lobe of the benign prostatic tissue to form a spherical valve, can increase urinary resistance. Lower urinary tract obstruction not only depends on the size of the proliferative gland, but also on the site of the hyperplasia and the internal and external growth of the prostate tissue.

Patients with mild prostate hyperplasia begin to urinate slowly, with weak urinary tract, short range, and thin or forked urinary tract. Bifurcation of the urinary tract is mainly caused by the proliferation of the middle lobe in the urethra, which causes urine to flow out from both sides. Patients with severe prostate hyperplasia need to hold their breath multiple times and contract abdominal muscles to increase abdominal pressure to help urinate. When holding their breath for a long time and requiring deep breathing rest, patients may experience low abdominal pressure, leading to interruption of urine flow and intermittent urination. When it becomes severe in the later stage, the patient's urine flow cannot form a line, but it takes a long time to pass, or even cannot pass urine at all.