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What it means
The need to get up to pass urine during the night, which breaks sleep. It becomes more common with age. Causes include drinking fluids or caffeine late in the evening, evening diuretic doses, an enlarged prostatePROS-taytA walnut-sized gland below the bladder in males that surrounds the urethra and makes part of the fluid in semen.Full entry , bladder problems, uncontrolled diabetes and heart failure, when fluid held in the legs during the day returns to the circulation at night.
For the nurse
Ask how many times a night the client gets up. Teach limiting fluids and caffeine for 2 hours before bed and taking diuretics in the morning. Keep a night light and a clear path to the bathroom to prevent falls.
At a glance
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Related terms
diuretic
A drug that makes the kidneys pass more water and salt out of the body as urine.
benign prostatic hyperplasia
A prostate gland that has grown larger than normal, from growth that is not cancer.
oliguria
Making less urine than normal, in an adult below about 400 mL a day.
urinate
To pass urine out of the body; to empty the bladder.