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9 Ways to Control Your Bladder When There’s No Bathroom 1. Pass gas if you have to. A buildup of  gas  in your intestines can place additional pressure on your bladder. Alleviating this pressure by passing gas may make you feel more comfortable and allow you to hold in urine for longer. 2. Reposition your body: sit upright but relaxed. The way you position your body can help you tighten the muscles around your bladder and make you feel like “holding it in” is a possibility. Don’t  slouch  and sit up straight to relieve some pressure on the bladder. This may reduce the urge of having to pee. 3. Stay warm. When you’re cold, your body will  react  to the drop in temperature. One of the consequences is that more pee will be produced. So when you already have the urge to pee, cover yourself up with blankets or turn up the heat. 4. Lie down. According to this  study , the pressure on your bladder drops progressively when lying down compared to a vertical posi

9 Ways to Control Your Bladder When There’s No Bathroom 5. Cross your legs while standing. The urethra is the tube that leads your pee out of your body. You can  squeeze  this tube slightly by crossing your legs. Make sure you cross them while standing since in a seated position, it might only lead to more pressure on the bladder. 6. Try not to laugh. When having a good laugh, your  core  muscles will tense, putting pressure on your bladder. However, the  sphincter  muscle, which closes the urethra to prevent leaking, relaxes with this increased pressure and that’s when urination occurs. So you’d better try to avoid giggling when you have the urge to pee! 7. Think of a distraction. When your bladder is more or less  half-full , nerves in the bladder will tell the brain that it’s time to go. This need to pee might be less urgent than it feels, so a distraction might override the urge to pee for a while. So next time, try to think about something else or scroll throu

Unarmed Black Man Died After Being Knelt On By Police in Minneapolis A black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis was seen on a bystander’s video pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his neck during the arrest and kept his knee there for several minutes after the man stopped moving. The death Monday night after a struggle with officers was under investigation by the FBI and state law enforcement authorities. It drew comparisons to the case of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died in 2014 in New York after he was placed in a chokehold by police and pleaded for his life, saying he could not breathe. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey apologized to the black community Tuesday in a post on his Facebook page. “Being Black in America should not be a death sentence. For five minutes, we watched a white officer press his knee into a Black man’s neck. Five minutes. When you hear someone calling for help, you’re supposed to help. This officer failed