I Need a Wee!: A laugh-out-loud picture book from the creators of Supertato!

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Alan's I-need-a-wee-dance will be recognisable to any parent of excited young children; this is a laugh-out-loud and relatable story about what happens when you're having too much of a good time to remember anything as dull as going to the toilet. Various neurological conditions can cause overactive bladder, but sometimes, the cause can be unknown.

That pressure can cause the urge to pee before the bladder is full, resulting in very little urine being passed. But unfortunately there's nowhere to go, until Alan stumbles onto a stage and manages to win a most useful (and capacious) trophy. If you have a UTI, your doctor will prescribe a course of antibiotics to treat and cure the condition.

It takes several months, but can be an effective way of getting your bladder used to holding larger volumes of pee for longer periods of time. If you’re struggling with incontinence – not knowing when you’re passing urine, never quite managing to get to the toilet on time, or leaking as soon as you feel the urge to go, that’s a slightly different issue, and might need a different approach. A urinalysis is simply a urine test that checks to see, among other things, if there’s bacteria or an infection in your urine. Alan the bear is having a great time at the amusement park, but he really, really, really needs to go to the potty.

If this happens a lot, lasts more than a couple of days, if your urine is cloudy, blood-stained or smells bad, or if you feel generally unwell with UTI symptoms, you should see a GP. Overflow incontinence may also be caused by your detrusor muscles not fully contracting, which means your bladder does not completely empty when you urinate. Any sudden extra pressure on your bladder, such as laughing or sneezing, can cause urine to leak out of your urethra if you have stress incontinence.

If a person frequently needs to pee but little comes out when they try to go, it can be due to a urinary tract infection (UTI), pregnancy, an overactive bladder, or an enlarged prostate. It can mean you either pass large amounts of urine constantly, or you pass urine occasionally with frequent leaking in between.

A funny book that relates the universal experience of needing a wee and not being able to find anywhere to go, I Really Really Need a Wee reminds readers of the importance of going before you leave the house. As well as sometimes causing urge incontinence, overactive bladder syndrome can mean you need to pass urine very frequently, including several times during the night. It's a situation everyone finds themselves in and an inner-battle situation especially kids known too well.

The urgent and frequent need to pass urine can be caused by a problem with the detrusor muscles in the walls of your bladder. Painful urination may be a sign of a urinary tract infection (UTI), sexually transmitted infection (STI), or other cause. To regain access, please make sure that cookies and JavaScript are enabled before reloading the page. It’s important to know that getting into the habit of going to the toilet as soon as you get the urge can actually make things worse, as the bladder never fully fills and it loses its tone.