Nocturia ?
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Does an increase in carb conxumption cause an increase in night time need to void? If anyone knows, please explain. TIA:
It could, if you are eating so many carbs that your BG is high. — Type 2 http://users.bestweb.net/~jbove/ Julie Bove, posting from new account
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Does an increase in carb conxumption cause an increase in night time need to void? If anyone knows, please explain. TIA: randee — To respond remove "nospam" from my address.
Hi Randee. Excessive or frequent need to urinate after going to bed is most often related to ecessive fluid intake. Other causes include congestive heart failure, uncontrolled diabetes, urinary tract infections, prostate disease and impaired kidney function. Diuretices can also cause nocturia. If nocturia is of recent developement, try reducing your fluid intake two or three hours before bed. When excessive fluid is the culprit there is generally notable relief within a few days of reducing fluid intake in the evenings. If you don’t notice any relief of the nocturia within three to four days, it is time to see the doc. Speaking directly to uncontrolled diabetes as a cause… How are your bg’s running? That is the greater indicater of how much of the nocturia is atributed to directely to the diabetes. Marie, Caretaker Mom T2 Dx 3/2002
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Does an increase in carb conxumption cause an increase in night time need to void? If anyone knows, please explain. TIA: randee — To respond remove "nospam" from my address.
Well, conventiobnal wisdom suggests that an increase in bg levels will cause increased urine output, so a higher carb input certainly could do so. I would suspect that carb input would have to be high enough to send your bg into abnormal level for the effect to be felt. Suggestion: take a bg reading just before going to bed. Maybe that would be a clue. Speaking only for myself, Joe Durusau
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Well, conventiobnal wisdom suggests that an increase in bg levels will cause increased urine output, so a higher carb input certainly could do so. I would suspect that carb input would have to be high enough to send your bg into abnormal level for the effect to be felt. Suggestion: take a bg reading just before going to bed. Maybe that would be a clue.
BG has to go above an individual’s "renal threshold" (usually somewhere between 180 and 220 mg/dl) before glucose appears in the urine at all, and it has to be higher than that for a prolonged period before the "spillage" results in increased urination due to osmotic effects. In addition to measuring BG before going to bed, it might also be a good idea to occasionally wake oneself up in the middle of the night and measure it then. It’s also important to distinguish between frequent urination due to a large volume of urine being produced, and frequent urination due to getting a strong urge to urinate when the bladder doesn’t seem all that full. They have different sets of causes.
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Does an increase in carb conxumption cause an increase in night time need to void? If anyone knows, please explain. TIA: randee — To respond remove "nospam" from my address.
