{"id":3173,"date":"2025-05-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:34:31","slug":"this-is-how-many-times-you-should-pee-in-a-day-according-to-your-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/this-is-how-many-times-you-should-pee-in-a-day-according-to-your-age\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how many times you should pee in a day, according to your age"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some people can easily go hours without a trip to the loo (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Relieving yourself, taking a leak, spending a penny. Whatever you call it, urination<\/a> is a near-universal experience, although the frequency of doing so can be far more individual.<\/p>\n

Some people wake up bursting multiple times a night, while others can go for a full working day without so much as a single trip to the loo – and where you sit on this scale can say a lot<\/a> about your overall health<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Hamid Abboudi, consultant urologist at New Victoria Hospital<\/a>, tea, coffee<\/a>, alcohol or fizzy drinks<\/a> can make you pee more often than usual, as they ’cause the bladder to become over active or over twitchy.’<\/p>\n

Medical conditions – including UTIs<\/a>, prostate<\/a> or bladder cancer, multiple sclerosis and strokes – can also impact this, along with your gender<\/a> and whether you’re pregnant.<\/p>\n

But the main factor affecting frequency is your age, as Hamid explains: ‘Across a patient’s life span there are likely to be several changes to toilet habits.’<\/p>\n

Wondering what’s ‘normal’ for each stage of your life? Urine luck.<\/p>\n

Children: 6 to 14 times a day<\/h2>\n

‘Young children may urinate 8 to 14 times a day, which decreases to 6-12 times for older children,’ Hamid tells Metro<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

If a child needs to pee more often than this, it could be down to one of the following issues:<\/p>\n