bladder

Construction of the bladder

Your bladder is the bottom of your belly, behind the pubic bone. It is a more or less spherical organ. On the sides mouths from two ureters which carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder. An empty bladder is clean but small, a full bladder has a capacity of 400 ml. Backflow of urine to the kidneys is not possible. At the bottom of the bladder is the urethra.

Your bladder has an extensive blood and nerve supply. The wall of the bladder has a muscular layer, causing your bladder can stretch and relax. In order to ensure that urine does not immediately leave your bladder, there is a so-called sphincter present. This closes the output off until leakage is not desirable.

Anatomy of the kidneys

Function of the bladder

Your bladder has a very clear function. Urine which is produced in kidneys, comes through the ureters into the bladder and is temporarily stored there. As a result, it is possible that we do not lose the entire day urine. We do several times a day to the toilet. A healthy person who drinks enough to urinate about six to eight times a day.

Operation of the bladder

Between the ureters and the urethra is a triangular little area that's sensitive. If your bladder fills with urine, will eventually go stretch this triangle. As a result, you get an urge to urinate. Then, when you yourself go to the bathroom, 

the control center of your bladder will take over this task and make sure that you go pee. From the moment you housebroken, this control center does not usually intervene, but your own way to the toilet. Once on the toilet the sphincter of the bladder will be released automatically. By then the muscle layer to pull back on your bladder urine can outside. The abdominal muscles tightening is not necessary during urination. Although the pressure on the bladder becomes larger, the urethra is pinched off so you urine less easily flowing.

Bladder problems

There are several problems or disorders of the bladder.  This is known as a bladder infection. In addition, you get a bladder augmentation bladder prolapse or bladder neck stricture. 

If you have bladder stones hope crystals urine until the onion chips. When bladder cancer is growing and malignant tumor in the bladder. Some people have an overactive bladder, one also speaks of a weak bladder.