Urination problems (LUTS)
Don't let your symptoms go unchecked
LUTS (lower urinary tract symptoms) are symptoms related to problems with your bladder, prostate and/or
urethra. It can affect both men and women, young or old.
LUTS are broadly grouped into symptoms to do with storing or passing urine. You may have symptoms linked
mainly to one or the other, or a combination of both.
What are Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS)?
Symptoms include:
- Hesitancy – a longer than usual wait for the stream of urine to begin
- Weak stream
- Straining to urinate
- Dribbling after urination has finished
- A stream that stops and starts
- Feeling an urgent need to urinate
- A short period of time between the urges to urinate
- Waking from sleep to pass urine two or more times a night (Nocturia)
- A sudden, intense urge to urinate, followed by urinating without control.
From incontinence and infections to stones and cancers, problems of the urinary tract are numerous and require targeted and prompt treatment.
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