When the bladder is begging for relief, ignoring one’s bodily cues for the sake of productivity or lounging around is common.
How many times have you decided that you just need to get through a meeting or the last few hours of a road trip first, or that you really don’t want to miss a second of the movie you just paid $25 to see?
Holding your pee in every so often generally can be harmless, but there are some cases in which the behaviour can pose threats to your health, especially if it’s a regular, learned behaviour, said Dr Jason Kim, clinical associate professor of urology at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York.
These risks stem from the reasons and the way we urinate in the first …