Does cold weather shrink your bladder?

[TheBlob]

Can someone explain this for me?

In the dead of Summer I could drink a half gallon of water and not have to take a leak for at least a half hour.

Whenever it's freezing outside and I drink a small cup of tea, I'm sprinting to the bathroom every fifteen minutes (sometimes four times within an hour) to piss like a race horse.

It's a huge interruption, especially when I'm at work.

Does this happen to anyone else or am I just some medical freak?

[Langis]

1. Just a thought

Maybe in the heat your body absorbs more of the liquid, but in the cold it does not need as much of it. :shrug:

[MaineDem]

2. I've been calling it Cold Bladder Syndrome for years

I made that up...CBS for short.

I have no idea if there's a medical reason but after much amateur research at various race tracks and ski areas around the world I've decided it's a definite fact. For sure! :)

[demnan]

3. Two things

1. What happens in the summer is usually more sweat. So you drink water and perspire

2. When you drink that tea there are beneficial properties in the tea, which cause your body to expel wastes from the kidneys.

http://www.thefragrantleaf.com/healbenoftea.html

http://www.o-cha.com/green_tea_benefits.htm

So drink more tea and go if you have to!

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. correct

You pee more in the winter because you're not sweating out the excess fluids out your skin.

[TheBlob]

7. Thanks guys

I'd write more but I've gotta take a leak!

[dreissig]

4. How's Your Blood Sugar?

You might be diabetic. The cold weather could be a coincidental factor.

[TheBlob]

5. As far as I know it's fine.

I am however a 'human heat pump'.
It could be 20 degrees outside and I'll be sweating like a fiend under my coat while anything that is exposed is frozen.

Not pleasant.

[FunBobbyMucha]

9. For what its worth, I think you're okay.

I'm a nurse. It's probably the insensible loss thing others have described. Even if you sweat in winter, it won't be as much as during the summer. The blood sugar thing could be valid too, but excess peeing would be only one of the symptoms you'd have, along with excessive thirst, changes in energy and alertness levels, etc. Hopefully not the case, though.

Where do I send my bill?

[BlueEyedSon]

8. Blood vessels in the extremities constrict (so you lose less heat).

The extra fluid volume needs to go somewhere.
At least that's how it was explained to me.

[HEyHEY]

10. I am the most qualified to answer this

I have a small bladder..when drinking I have to pee no joke..every ten minutes.

When I worked as a landscaper, on a hot summer day I would go through maybe a gallon of water in a day without peeing once...when it rained if I even had so mauch as a litre..I'd have to go.

Whenit's hot I think your body conserves it and uses ..when it's cold.....who needs the water...get it outta here!

[Kolesar]

11. I was in the pool! I was in the pool!

somebody had to say it

[dofus]

12. It's not unusual.

Same thing happens to me. It's easy to tell that it's really, really hot out if I can drink several bottles of water and not have to pee.