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Dr. Oz

If you're constantly running to the bathroom, you could have Incomplete Urinary Emptying -- a condition that affects millions of women across the country. Learn the tests you can do at home to diagnose yourself.

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00:00 We're on the cutting edge today,

00:01 and now we're gonna address some of the most

00:03 annoying problems as you age.

00:05 Now first, you ever have that feeling

00:07 like you have the world's smallest bladder

00:09 that you're constantly running to pee every 10 minutes?

00:11 Well, it's a condition, right?

00:12 You guys are all laughing about it.

00:14 You probably didn't think you know what you have,

00:15 but you know what?

00:16 It's a condition we have not talked about before,

00:18 'cause I'm about to reveal how you can stop this

00:20 from happening to you.

00:22 Patricia's gonna help us explain this.

00:23 Welcome, Patricia.

00:24 Hi, how are you?

00:25 You have to go pee a lot?

00:26 All the time, three to four times

00:27 before I even came here.

00:28 Three to four times already?

00:29 Yes, yes, yep.

00:31 Have you had urinary problems in the past?

00:32 I have, very much so.

00:34 Three to four times a year, UTIs.

00:37 Infections?

00:38 Yes.

00:39 All right, how many of you have heard

00:39 of incomplete urinary emptying?

00:42 Like four people in the back there.

00:45 (audience applauding)

00:46 I'll tell you something, folks.

00:47 You all think you know why you're not able

00:48 to urinate the way you want to.

00:49 This thing affects millions of women across the country.

00:52 Most have no idea.

00:53 I'm gonna explain what this is with an animation.

00:55 I'm gonna do a test today to help show you

00:57 what I'm talking about, and a little home test

00:58 that will work for you as well.

00:59 So come on over.

01:00 This is an animation about what goes on

01:02 in your bladder naturally.

01:03 So here you are in the pelvic area.

01:05 Let's take that away.

01:06 You've got some key organs here.

01:07 There's a uterus, that pink thing.

01:08 That dark maroon structure is the bladder.

01:10 And in the pelvis, if we turn to the side,

01:11 you see the bladder is able to empty out urine

01:14 because you've got a sphincter down here.

01:15 But if the bladder's not emptying all the way,

01:17 if there's urine left in there after you go potty,

01:20 the enclosed bacteria will begin to grow in that urine.

01:23 Like if you left urine in the toilet,

01:24 it would grow bacteria, same in your bladder.

01:26 So when this is an infection,

01:27 it gets red and angry and irritated,

01:28 and that can cause urinary tract infections

01:30 and the pain that goes along with it.

01:32 So the question is why, why, why would there be times

01:35 when you have incomplete emptying of the bladder?

01:38 And there are a lot of things that cause it.

01:39 Hormones cause it, aging cause it.

01:41 But if you have it, you have it.

01:43 And there's simple things we can do to deal with it.

01:45 So I'm gonna examine you if it's okay.

01:46 Patricia, hop up here.

01:48 And now I'm about to show you a cutting edge technique

01:50 to see how much urine is left in Patricia's bladder.

01:53 Right now, and there's no knives involved.

01:56 We'll be happy to know.

01:57 Did I give you reassurance?

01:58 You can slide down a little bit.

01:59 Get comfortable here.

02:00 All right.

02:01 Now, this is an ultrasound device.

02:03 Now, when was the last time you went to the bathroom?

02:06 Five seconds ago.

02:07 Five seconds ago.

02:08 So you peed during the animation, or was it before that?

02:10 I did, yeah, the animation.

02:12 So right before the show, Patricia went to the bathroom.

02:17 If you don't mind, loosen up just here.

02:18 You'll close a tiny bit.

02:19 I'm gonna get in here.

02:20 Now, she made me promise and swear

02:21 I have to show her belly fat.

02:22 That's right.

02:23 Is that okay?

02:24 That's right.

02:24 All right.

02:25 So I'm gonna take this here, if you don't mind.

02:26 I'm gonna slide down.

02:27 You know what, just put that under there for me,

02:28 and just push that all down.

02:29 I have to get about two finger breaths

02:30 above your pelvic bone.

02:31 Okay.

02:32 Okay, so where's your pelvic bone?

02:33 Down here?

02:34 Right here.

02:35 So I need to get down here.

02:35 Okay.

02:36 So, okay.

02:37 We're headed in the right direction anyway.

02:38 Good, all right.

02:39 So the ultrasound device is very simple.

02:40 You've all seen devices like this.

02:42 The PVR bladder scan.

02:44 This is a post-void scan.

02:46 It looks at the post-void residual,

02:47 how much urine is left in your bladder

02:49 after you've gone to the bathroom.

02:50 So I'm gonna put an ultrasound device here.

02:53 It's a little bit cold.

02:54 There we are.

02:57 Okay, now we're looking right there.

02:58 That's a pretty good picture right there.

03:01 And can you all see that on the big screen?

03:03 All right.

03:06 Let's freeze that there.

03:07 Inside here is the urine, and it's 250 mLs.

03:12 That's about eight and a half ounces.

03:15 Wow.

03:16 There's eight and a half ounces.

03:17 You all see the urine in there?

03:19 See that there?

03:20 And there's the volume, 250 mLs, eight and a half ounces.

03:25 So I'm gonna clean that up.

03:26 Let me explain to you what that means.

03:28 Is that okay?

03:29 Yes.

03:30 Okay, so you have eight and a half ounces of urine left

03:33 after you just went to the bathroom.

03:34 Yes.

03:35 You hop up.

03:36 That means that you're above what we consider

03:37 the maximum we'll allow, which is about 150 mLs.

03:41 That's about five ounces.

03:42 So if you're retaining too much urine in your side of you,

03:45 you're setting yourself up

03:46 to the thing that I'm talking about there.

03:47 So this is not just a problem for women.

03:49 This is also an issue for men.

03:50 Not in the exact same mechanism,

03:52 but men will also keep urine in their bladders

03:54 after they think they've emptied themselves out completely

03:56 if their prostates have gotten large.

03:57 Let me give you two at-home tests.

03:59 The first is called the belly pressing test.

04:01 We're all gonna do it together.

04:02 All right, I want you to take your fingers

04:03 and you want to press on your belly.

04:05 Simple as it sounds.

04:06 At the end of urinating, next time,

04:08 I want you to push just above your pelvic bone in there

04:10 and see if it makes you wanna go to the bathroom again.

04:14 Right?

04:14 'Cause if you've got--

04:15 A little.

04:16 A little bit?

04:17 Yeah, 'cause I just saw you have almost twice as much.

04:20 You have almost twice as much urine

04:21 as you're supposed to have in there.

04:22 So you're not peeing everything out.

04:24 And if you have that much urine,

04:25 you gotta go see a urologist to get ahead of it.

04:27 The other test is called the double voiding test.

04:30 And that is all about how long does it take you

04:33 to need to go to the bathroom

04:34 after you just went to the bathroom.

04:35 So if 10 minutes after urinating,

04:37 you can go again and try to push yourself,

04:39 that means that you've got retained urine in there.

04:41 'Cause your bladder should never want,

04:42 you should have so little left in there,

04:44 your bladder can't go.

04:45 Okay?

04:46 So I'll give you some solutions.

04:47 One in particular that I want you to think about

04:48 from now on, flax seeds.

04:50 Now remember, you gotta ground flax seeds up

04:52 pretty soon before you use 'em.

04:53 Can't grind 'em up weeks ahead of time.

04:54 You can add it to whatever you're having

04:55 for breakfast in the morning, yogurt or oatmeal.

04:57 But I made this little smoothie drink.

04:59 It's simple to make these things.

05:01 And it helps soothe the lining of the urinary tract,

05:04 which makes it easier for the bladder

05:05 to expel the urine that's in it.

05:07 Okay.

05:08 So let's see if you like the taste of this thing.

05:09 Okay.

05:10 And I've not tasted it yet either.

05:11 Pretty good.

05:15 You have to go to the bathroom?

05:16 (audience applauds)

05:17 I do.

05:19 Any questions, make sense?

05:20 Yes, make sense.

05:21 Thank you very much.

05:22 Thanks for letting me examine you.

05:22 Thank you for watching.

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