Increased thirst can also be an indication of cystitis, which is an inflammation of the bladder, and is normally accompanied by behavioral changes such as passage of only
small amounts of urine at a time and urinating away from the litter box.
FIC has similar symptoms to urinary tract infections, including straining to urinate, having to go to the litter box frequently, only producing
a small amount of urine at a time, and having discolored or bloody urine.
Not exact matches
According to Dr Yik Lim, consultant urogynaecologist
at Melbourne's Mercy Hospital for Women, the
amount of urine your bladder can hold depends on how old you are: the older the person, the
smaller their bladder capacity.
Then again, they added, some
of that fluid could also be
small amounts of urine: «Ultrasounds have shown that the bladder fills during sexual intercourse and contracts in women who «squirt» fluid from the urethra
at orgasm,» they wrote.
Symptoms
of a urinary tract infection include increased water consumption and frequency
of urination, voiding
small amounts and straining, accidents in the house, leaking
urine during sleep, strong smelling or atypically colored
urine, and incessant licking
at the prepuce or vulva.
The
amount of urine passed may be very
small — just a few drops — or there may be no
urine produced
at all.
At first she was passing
small amounts of urine.
Signs
of a urinary tract infection in your pet include lethargy, loss
of appetite, increased frequency
of urination often with
smaller amounts at a time, straining
at urination which may be painful leading to vocalization, inappropriate urination in the home or outside the litterbox, bloody urination, and often a strong offensive odor to the
urine.
Often the
amount of blood in the
urine is so
small it can only be detected by testing with a specially treated paper, or by looking
at the
urine sediment under the microscope.
But Håkan Jönsson, eco-agriculture and sanitation system technology expert
at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden, told SciDev.Net: «The
amount [
of urine] that can be collected from a person or a family is fairly
small (equivalent to about two bags
of fertiliser per year for a west African family).