A person can control the function of his bladder thanks to smart sensors, which give orders to the urinary system, either by emptying urine or holding it until access to the toilet.
The adult bladder can carry up to a pint (2 cups) of urine before you feel the need to go to the toilet.
Your body defines the specific amount, which must then be emptied of urine because the bladder wall is full of small receptors, which send a message to your brain when the bladder reaches fullness.
But what exactly do we do when we hold all that urine?
According to SciShow, a science specialist on YouTube, once you make the decision that you are too busy to urinate at the moment, the bladder muscles are close enough to keep the urine out of the flow.
What these muscles do really is great, but with long-term incontinence, it gets serious over time.
Constant constipation of the urine leads to weakening of the bladder muscles, which may lead to urinary retention - a terrible condition that prevents you from emptying the bladder completely when you urinate, which means that you feel that you are urinating in a wet way.
Holding large amounts of urine for a long period of time exposes your body to bacteria, which can be harmful, and increase the chances of infection with urinary tract infection (UTI) or bladder infection.
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All of this seems so bad, but not life threatening, but the world and Danish chemist who was famous in the 16th century, Tejo Brahi, can provide the best example of urinary incontinence.
Brahi was a great scientist, contributing to the scientific literature of everything from galaxies and comets to planetary orbits.
Brahi entered a sword duel with a fellow chemist because of the difference in the validity of a mathematical formula. Because they chose to duel in the dark, he ended up losing part of his nose.
For the rest of his life, Brahi would stick a nose made of gold or silver in his face, but the cause of his death was more ironic.
According to the historians, Brahi refused to leave a banquet to relax himself in the toilet, because he thought it was contrary to etiquette.
As soon as he got home, he found that he was unable to urinate at all. He was delirious and died shortly afterwards when the bladder exploded.
The good news is that Brahi's bladder is not normal. In most cases, the person will be wet before any explosion.
If an explosion occurs, it is because the bladder is already damaged for some reason, and people were exposed to it when they were drunk to the point where the bladder had no sense of signals from the brain.
