Is it true you can not sit on a cold, or sick cystitis
Health / / December 19, 2019
Cystitis - an infectious disease. But we insist that the cold can not sit. Where is the truth? Responsible urologist.
Daria Chernysheva
Urologist City Center endoscopic urology and new technologies of St. Petersburg, a member of the European Association of Urology. Medical blogger.
No, it's not true. You can not get sick cystitis or kidney chill (usually by this phenomenon understands pyelonephritis - an inflammation of the renal pelvis renal system), having sat on the cold stone or other surface. it mythWhich is distributed only on the territory of CIS countries.
In most cases, both of these diseases are caused by bacteria, usually E. coli. There is no connection between the seat on the cold surface and in the urine of E. coli not.
Adequate scientific studies confirming that sitting on cold surfaces can somehow reduce immunity and lead to increased bacteria in the urine, there is today. However, many well-known that there is frequent urination after the hypothermia.
This is not a cystitis, and the manifestation of a reflex - cold diuresis.
This phenomenon is that when supercooling the body tends to reduce heat loss and sharply reduces blood flow in the skin by redistributing it to the vital organs, especially the kidneys. An intensified filtering urine. In addition, a full bladder - is also a source of heat. Therefore, the body tends to empty it soon. This leads to frequent urination, frequent urination, but - it's not a cystitis.
If a person sat on the cold and froze much, on his return to a warm room to drink 2-3 cups of warm liquid to make up for the water balance.
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