A pelvic health specialist is warning people not to urinate in the shower - because they risk causing themselves medical problems.
Dr Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas has taken to social media to explain some of the bad habits that can cause you problems.
Dr Alicia is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) as well as the APTA Section on Women’s Health.
She said: "We want to avoid training our bladder to associate certain signals with the urge to pee. In this case, peeing in the shower associates the sound of running water with urination or with submersion in water.
"This can often transition into being triggered by other sounds of running water (like when you're running the faucet to wash your hands or the dishes) or when you're in bodies of water."
Dr Alicia also listed a number of other bad habits that could trigger problems, such as hovering over the toilet - and "peeing just in case".
She revealed other bad habits for your pelvic floor:
- pushing out your pee
- hovering over the toilet
- peeing 'just in case'
- peeing in the shower
- Doing tonnes of kegels without being evaluated by a pelvic floor specialist
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