Posted by Beachball on August 04, 2003 at 12:01 [81.135.95.239]
In Reply to: Re: Hormone deficiency causing bedwetting posted by Dave on August 02, 2003 at 17:29
There's a hormone called ADH, which is normally produced at night. It's what concentrates your piss, so it's normally darker in the morning, and for most of us means we can hold our piss all night.
If the hormone isn't produced (and I think it gets to be a problem as you get older) you make more piss at night, which means either a sleepless night, or a wet bed for a deep sleeper.
I think they can manufacture the hormone as vasopressin to compensate people who don't make any of their own and thus alleviate the consequences.
I got this from a friend who studied biology. He also told me that the production of ADH is stimulated by nicotine, which is why people who smoke can often drink pints and pints of beer without having to go for a piss, because their urine production is slowed down, though in my experience, this is not always the case with smoking friends of mine.
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