How Much Urine Can a Healthy Bladder Hold?

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[JoeProBono]

A healthy adult bladder can hold up to 16 ounces (2 cups) of urine comfortably, according to the National Institutes of Health. How frequently it fills depends on how much excess water your body is trying to get rid of. Circular muscles called sphincters close tightly to keep urine from leaking. The involuntary leakage of urine is called incontinence.

Nerves in the bladder tell you when it is time to empty it. The sensation becomes stronger as the bladder continues to fill and reaches its limit. When you urinate, the brain signals the sphincter muscles to relax. At the same time, the brain signals the bladder muscles to squeeze, thus allowing urine to flow through the urethra. When these signals occur in the correct order, normal urination occurs. Problems in the urinary system can be caused by aging, illness, or injury. The muscles in and around your bladder tend to weaken with age. Weak bladder muscles may result in your not being able to empty your bladder completely, leaving you at a higher risk for urinary tract infections, according to the NIH.

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

"How Much Urine Can a Healthy Bladder Hold?"

Depends

[pabianice]

Wait, wait; don’t tell me! From a tax-funded study costing $116M, right?

[TRY ONE]

This ought to be fun....I remember the time when I drunk X cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, etc. etc.

[a fool in paradise]

...if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[Jeffrey_D.]

And now for something completely different ?????

[savedbygrace]

I can’t tell you how many 16 oz beer bottles I overflowed ‘back in the day’.

Loss of concentration at the critical moment, bummers.

[Star Traveler]

These days, with me, never enough... LOL...

[a fool in paradise]

"Y'mean my bladder is unhealthy?"

[a fool in paradise]

[SoDak]

How Much Urine Can a Healthy Bladder Hold?

It'll hold the first 4 just fine, no problem. After that though, it only holds one bottle at a time.

[montomike]

Here’s mine:

We went to the River at Yuma and I drank a case and a half of beer without peeing once.

I was so proud of myself!

[kidd]

2 cups comfortably.

Way, way more uncomfortably.

[cripplecreek]

I know it will hold at least one 64 oz Little Kings Cream Ale.

[keats5]

Good grief, everyone knows a human bladder can hold 2 cups of coffee.

[a fool in paradise]

Al Gore’s can apparently only hold one glass of iced tea at a time.

[Cyclone59]

Thanks, now I need to pee!

[a fool in paradise]

Thanks, now I need to pee!

[Vinnie]

Can your bladder hold more than a chihuahua’s?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TI1UOWS8g8

[JoeProBono]