Stress Incontinence
Stress incontinence is a very common form of urinary incontinence. Treatment can vary, but the most common form of treatment is to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles also known as kegal exercises.
Understanding your bladder
Your body produces urine around the clock, and a small trickle of urine passes from the tubes from the kidneys to the bladder.
The amount of urine that your body actually produces depends on how much you have eaten and drunk.
The bladder itself is made from a muscle and is the part of your body that stores the urine. As the bladder fills it swells a bit like a small balloon. The bladder remains closed by the muscles near the urethra also known as your pelvic floor muscles.
When the bladder is starting to get full your body tells you that it’s time to go to the toilet. When you are passing urine the pelvic floor muscle relaxes and the bladder muscle squeezes.
Stress incontinence
Stress incontinence is basically when urine leaks from your bladder which can happen for no reason at all or usually caused by exercise, coughing, sneezing etc. What happens is that the pelvic floor muscles and urethra are not able to hold the extra pressure (stress). Stress incontinence is caused by weak pelvic floor muscles. This condition can obviously be very embarrassing as you have no control of when it can happen. Stress incontinence is actually very common among adults, especially in women over 40. Up to 1 in 5 women will suffer from stress incontinence during their lifetime.
How to cure stress incontinence
Exercise
The first and most usual treatment is to do pelvic floor exercises or also known as kegal exercises.
These can be done manually which can take time to see results or by using a pelvic floor toner to speed up results.
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Medication
Medication can be used to help treat stress incontinence. A drug called duloxetine which is more commonly used to treat depression can also help with stress
incontinence. Some studies have been carried out to test its effectiveness, the results showed that around 60% of women who took duloxetine reported their
leakages reducing by half. Whilst medication will not cure incontinence it can help reduce the number of leakages. It is generally advised that pelvic floor
toning should be carried out whilst taking medication.
Surgery
Another treatment for stress incontinence is to undergo surgery to tighten the muscles. However this is not normally required and in most cases regular
exercise will solve the problem. If you are leaking urine, then its best to start exercising the muscles as soon as possible and you should consider
purchasing a exerciser which takes a lot of the effort out of doing the exercises yourself and can also help speed up results.
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