Information about Urinary Incontinence

We Have to Know about the Urinary Incontinence

Involuntary loss of urine
Types of Urinary incontinence
1. Stress urinary incontinence – Occurs while coughing or sneezing
2. Urge incontinence- great desire to urinate that cannot be suppressed.
Overflow incontinence- chronic retention of urine due to bladder outlet obstruction or bladder muscle dysfunction
Total incontinence -continuous leakage of all the urine

Stress urinary incontinence in females -childbirth injury, trauma, radiation, previous surgery to the urethra or bladder neck, atrophy of the genital tissues related to the menopause
Stress urinary incontinence in males- pelvic fracture, radiation, trauma
Urge incontinence- old age, radiation, bladder stones, bladder tumors TB of the bladder
Overflow incontinence- prostate carcinoma, diabetes mellitus, pelvic surgery, low spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and stroke.

Stress urinary incontinence – activities like coughing, sneezing, lifting of heavy objects or getting up from a chair causes leakage.
Urge incontinence – patient leaks before getting to a toilet
Overflow incontinence – a persistent low-level leakage, which is often worse at night. Complaint of the poor stream, straining while passing urine and a feeling of incomplete emptying.

As you get older, the muscles in your bladder and urethra lose some of their strength
Women are twice as likely as men
Being overweight
Smoking