Contents:
- Medical Video: Female Bladder Leakage: Solutions to Get Control | UCLA Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Why are women more difficult to hold urine than men?
- Get to know more about the type of urinary incontinence
- 1. Stress urinary incontinence
- 2. Urge incontinence urinary
- 3. Mixed urinary incontinence
- How to overcome urinary incontinence?
- 1. Stress urinary incontinence
- 2. Urgency urinary incontinence
- 3. Mixed urinary incontinence
Medical Video: Female Bladder Leakage: Solutions to Get Control | UCLA Obstetrics & Gynecology
Problems with difficulty urinating, or also known as urinary incontinence, are common in many adults. But apparently, this condition is more common in women than men. What is the reason?
Why are women more difficult to hold urine than men?
Researchers suggest that the reason women find it harder to hold urine may be based on a number of factors, ranging from age, pregnancy and childbirth, history of surgery, to certain diseases and neurological disorders.
In women who have just given birth, whether through normal delivery or caesarean section, changes in the pelvic muscles can weaken the other muscles around the bladder. When the bladder decides to urinate, the muscles around it should tighten. At the same time, the muscles around the urethra relax and urine is removed from the body. Well after giving birth, the pelvic muscles become even so that the urine can not be held back. The same thing basically happens to pregnant women. The content is getting heavier and pressing the bladder below makes it difficult for you to hold urine.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, urinary incontinence was found in 10.1% of women who had never given birth, 15.9% in women who had had a caesarean section, and 21% in women who had had a normal delivery.
In general, urinary incontinence can be caused by many things, such as urinary tract infections, vaginal infections, irritation, constipation, and drugs that have side effects on the bladder muscle ability. The damage to the nerves that control urinary function can also affect the frequency of you going back and forth to the bathroom, for example Parkinson's disease.
Get to know more about the type of urinary incontinence
Urinary incontinence is divided into 3 types, namely stress urinary incontinence, urge urinary incontinence,and mixed urinary incontinence.
1. Stress urinary incontinence
Stress urinary incontinence is a condition that makes it difficult for a person to urinate because of pressure, such as coughing, laughing, sneezing, or exercising.
Urinary incontinence stress occurs because the ring muscles around the urethral opening (urethra) do not function properly. This is most often due to childbirth. Other causes are pelvic surgery or hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus). Then women who are overweight or obese can also experience stress urinary incontinence.
2. Urge incontinence urinary
Urge urinary incontinence is a condition that causes a person to not hold urine because of taste have the need or the desire to urinate. Urge incontinence often occurs in the elderly. This can be caused by excessive muscle work, nerve disease, or spinal cord injury.
Frequent frequency or desire to urinate at night (nocturia) with a small urine volume is a sign of overactive bladder with or without feeling dull or the desire to urinate. Overactive bladder can also occur in men and this incidence is more common in older age, which is as much as 16.7%.
3. Mixed urinary incontinence
This type is a mixed type between stress urinary incontinence and urge urinary incontinence.
How to overcome urinary incontinence?
Surely now you are wondering how to overcome the difficulty of holding back the urination. American College of Physicians (ACP) presents several recommendations for overcoming this problem based on your incontinence type. For these three types, weight loss is also good if you have excessive weight or obesity.
1. Stress urinary incontinence
For this type, all you have to do is consult a gynecologist for surgery to repair the pelvic wall muscle.
2. Urgency urinary incontinence
For this type, you are recommended to do a bladder training where you will exercise to urinate. If bladder training is not successful, it is recommended to take medication from a doctor.
3. Mixed urinary incontinence
For this type, it is best to repair your pelvic floor muscles and bladder training.
