Interrupted urine flow

Urine flow interruption refers to the sudden interruption of urine flow during urination, sometimes accompanied by severe pain in the head of the penis. The most common cause is that patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia must expel urine by increasing the strength of their abdominal muscles. In the late stage of the disease, you cannot urinate all at once, and you need to take another breath to continue urinating, which is manifested as interrupted urine flow. Patients suffering from bladder stones, bladder tumors, foreign bodies in the bladder, and ureteric cysts, etc. During urination, stones, tumors or ureteric cysts, foreign bodies, etc. can continue to urinate after moving to the position where they can move with the urine flow. During urination of patients with giant bladder diverticula, bladder ureteral reflux, and ureteral hydronephrosis, although most of the urine has been discharged, a considerable part of the urine is still in the diverticulum or ureter. After the end of urination, this part of the urine quickly enters the bladder again, and produces urination, and then urinates again. This condition is called two-stage urination, not interrupted urine flow.

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