Let’s find out the reason behind this “bad pee” phenomenon!
For most of us, holding our pee for a long time is horrible. However, that is not the worst thing, but having to listen to the murmuring water flowing while “the water is boiling and burning” is the torture.
Because it makes the desire to solve the sadness increase to the extreme. So, what is the scientific reason behind this feeling?
Holding urine for a long time is horrible.
First, let’s repeat a bit of biology. Remember Pavlov – the scientist who studied reflexes? One of his most famous experiments that we have ever studied was the conditioned reflex, conducted on a dog.
The aim of the experiment was to conclude that autonomic responses (intrinsic reflexes that occur automatically and unconsciously under the control of the autonomic nervous system) can be generated by external stimuli. .
The dog’s conditioned reflex.
When the dog sees the piece of meat, it immediately secretes saliva in the oral cavity. While conducting the experiment, Pavlov used some meat powder to make the dog salivate, at the same time he proceeded to ring the bell.
After months of repeating this experiment, when he came to a point where he just rang the bell without placing the meat, the dog continued to salivate because it has now developed the bell-vibrating reflex associated with the food.
The urge to urinate when listening to the sound of running water also seems to be a form of conditioned reflex. The sound of running water sounds like the sound when you “resolve” , making us even more “urinary” .
Let the water run in the tub to help people who have difficulty urinating can excrete easily.
However, this is only a hypothesis. Although many urologists and psychologists think it is the cause of the problem, and have mentioned it in many journals, so far no formal studies have been published.
Many psychology and parenting books also recommend that water should be left in the tub to help people who have difficulty urinating more easily.
In the early 70s, a New York hospital even gave patients a 30-minute audio recording of running water to aid with their excretion problems, and it really worked wonders.