Frequent Urination (Pollakiuria): Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).

  • Diverticulitis – disease of the colon in which inflammation forms in outpouchings of the mucosa (diverticula) (secondary: dysuria/difficult (painful) urination or a weak urinary stream in the presence of micturition dysfunction/bladder emptying disorder).

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48).

  • Urinary bladder tumor, unspecified (benign (benign) and malignant (malignant)).
  • Prostate carcinoma (prostate cancer)

Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99)

Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)

  • Nocturia – nocturnal urination
  • Polyuria – excessive urination.

Genitourinary system (kidneys, urinary tract – sex organs) (N00-N99)

  • Abacterial cystitis (synonym: interstitial cystitis).
  • Adnexitis – inflammation of the fallopian tube and ovary.
  • Appendicitis (secondary: dysuria and polyuria).
  • Bladder neck hypertrophy
  • Bladder instability (prematurely activated micturition reflex; detrusor).
  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) – benign enlargement of the prostate gland.
  • Urinary bladder irritation, unspecified
  • Urethral stenosis – narrowing of the urethra.
  • Prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate)
  • Pyelonephritis (inflammation of the renal pelvis)
  • Irritable bladder (urethral syndrome) – irritable condition of the urinary bladder in which no triggering cause can be found.
  • Ureteral stone (is then usually in the lower third → reflex pollakiuria).
  • Urethritis (inflammation of the urethra)
  • Urolithiasis (urinary stone disease) of the urinary bladder.
  • Cystitis (inflammation of the urinary bladder), infectious.

Medication

Other differential diagnoses

  • Acute and chronic symptoms/discomfort due to sedentary cycling.
  • Habit
  • Space-occupying processes in the pelvis (e.g. uterus myomatosus/uterus enlarged by fibroids (benign muscular growths), ovarian tumor/ovarian tumor, etc.).
  • Pregnancy
  • Stress
  • Condition after radiotherapy (radiatio; for example, in testicular, ovarian or prostate cancer/testicular, ovarian and prostate cancer).