urinary system interesting post(interesting facts)

- human bladder can hold 400 ml of urine

- human body blood filtered 400 times through kidney everyday

- urine stays in bladder 5 hours before discharge

- nerve sends signals to brain when bladder needs to be emptied

-  The bladder swells into a round shape like a balloon when full and gets smaller when empty. 

- there should be a control limit that shouldn’t be exceeded in situations where we have had to control our full bladder due to unavailability of a restroom.

-The kidney can clean more than 1 million gallons of water in a lifetime, which is more than enough to fill a small lake.
-You may suffer from stress if the muscles supporting the bladder are weakened. You can help to strengthen these by doing pelvic floor exercises.
-Urine is a blood byproduct and is non-toxic. It contains 95% water, 2.5% urea and 2.5% of other mixtures of minerals, salts and enzymes.

- If one kidney fails to function and is removed, the other kidney can increase in size by 50% within two months to handle the entire task of filtration.

- Urine is often diluted and added to potted plants in the garden as it has adequate urea content which is a wonderful source of nitrogen to plants.