Frequent waking up at night may be a sign of kidney disease

Doctor Oleg Kotenko, a nephrologist at the Moscow Health Directorate, said frequent awakenings at night may be a symptom of poor kidney function.

And Russian media, including "Novosti" and "Russia Today" quoted the doctor as saying: "There are no specific standards for the number of times to go to the toilet. But one of the indicators of kidney dysfunction is waking up at night, which is a signal that should prompt one to pay attention to the work of the kidneys." .

The doctor added that if you notice pain when urinating frequently, you must check for a urinary tract infection, and stressed that patience and endurance should not arise when the need to go to the toilet appears, because any stagnation in the urine greatly increases the risk of infection, that is, the infection from Urine can pass to the kidney tissue.

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