How to hold urine during prenatal ultrasound?

Anyone who has done an ultrasound will have this experience, that is, you need to hold your urine when doing an ultrasound examination. So why do you have to hold your urine when doing a gynecological ultrasound examination? In particular, many women who have prenatal checkups need to hold their urine. However, holding urine will have an impact on the fetus, so many people will ask how to hold urine to minimize the impact, and most people don’t know why you need to hold your urine when doing an ultrasound.

How long is it best to hold urine?

You need to drink about 6 to 8 cups of water half an hour to one hour before the examination. Generally speaking, it is best to hold your urine until you feel the urge to urinate. This is not like what many people "rumor" say, that you need to hold your urine to the limit, because an overfull bladder will compress the pelvic organs, causing them to shift and deform, and some subtle lesions are often covered up, such as small uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, etc., which will not be shown. The signs of pregnancy (gestational sac, embryo) are also not clear due to being flattened by pressure. Therefore, holding urine for too long, just like holding urine for too little, can cause diagnostic difficulties and errors.

Why do you hold your urine?

The uterus and ovaries are located deep inside the pelvic cavity, and the small intestine tends to hang down into the pelvic cavity. When performing an abdominal B-ultrasound, the peristalsis of the intestines and their contents will interfere with the image of the uterus and ovaries, causing them to appear unclear. Therefore, you need to drink plenty of water before the examination to fill your bladder and push your intestines upward.

If an ultrasound examination is performed when the bladder is not full, the gas in the bladder and the gas in the uterus will overlap, causing misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis. However, not all gynecological transabdominal B-ultrasounds require holding urine. It is not necessary in the following situations: After 8 weeks of pregnancy, the uterus grows and rises into the abdominal cavity, pushing the intestines naturally upwards. There is amniotic fluid in the uterine cavity, so there is no need to hold urine to observe the fetus.

I believe you have understood it after reading my explanation. In normal times, you can hold your urine according to these interesting stories I told you. If you don't feel like urinating before the examination, you can drink some watermelon juice appropriately. This kind of food can help with urination, and the effect is greater than drinking boiled water. In addition, you should drink some boiled water after the B-ultrasound examination.