Can the bladder explode if pee is held in to long?

Answer 1

If you need to pee and you hold it in for too long, it can tear the linings in your bladder and permanently damage your bladder. Not going to the bathroom can also give you a bladder infection. No, it doesn't explode.

Answer 2

Urinary bladder has the capability to expand easily up to a volume of 750ml of Urine. The conditions in which bladder can explode is any cancer weakening the bladder wall, any nerve defects resulting in loss of sensation of bladder fullness and trauma.

Answer 3

Only 1% of ruptured bladders are considered idiopathic and may be the result of a series of factors combining to rupture your bladder, fullness of course being one of them (but not the only one). Typically, unless the urinary tract is blocked, you'll eventually pass urine whether you choose to or not, long before the bladder bursts. Bladder rupters almost always come from force -- either blunt trauma or sharp trauma, and may happen during surgeries in the areas of the bladder.

Answer 4

Probably not. Unless there is a problem with your urinary tract, if you hold your urine for too long you would eventually be unable to control it and urinate involuntarily. That said, you could still do harm to your bladder and kidneys. Astronomer Tycho Brahe is reported to have died of some disease of the bladder or kidneys after holding his urine for too long, though it is also possible that he was deliberately poisoned.

Answer 5

Urinary bladders do not "explode" (shatter violently and noisily as a result of rapid combustion, decomposition, excessive internal pressure, or other process, typically scattering fragments widely). However after severe injury such as blunt force trauma they may rupture or split.

Answer 6

No.

well it doesn't explode but the lining in your bladder will tear and urine will spill and internally burn your insides. NOT FUN!!!

Answer 7

No. The urge to urinate will overcome the muscles you are using to holding the urine in the bladder.