“OAB is a normal thing as part of ageing process”, said a retired civil servant, Julia, 66. Also there are some who take it as a lifestyle change. “I always know where the toilet is,” said Stephen, 51, a lead structural engineer.
Mary, 41, a lawyer said, “I’m afraid to get intimate.”
“If I stay up at night, I am afraid of falling but if I’m not getting up, I’m afraid that I will wet my bed,” said a retired mechanic, Adam, 77.
A woman with urinary incontinence may have to go through many tests and need to accept more than one treatment to cure this health problem. These are the common treatments for urinary incontinence:
The diagnosis for urinary incontinence are as follow.
Keeping a Urine Diary. Dr. Shah Reza a gynaecologist at University of Science Malaysia Hospital, said, women who are suspected suffering this situation will be requested to record how many times they go to the toilet, type of drink they take, what was done to cause the leakage or frequency to urinate.
These are conditions which may caused the urinary incontinence:
Bladder infection. Signs of disease such as pain to urinate, often going to the toilet and also could be presence of blood in urine. Bladder and urethra infection also commonly happens to women because of their anatomy’s structure. Don’t worry, this can easily be treated.
These are several types of urinary incontinence and its complications
Tension / stress Incontinence. Happen to young women when the pressure in urine bladder exceeded pressure in urethra causing urine leakage when one sneeze, cough or laugh. Leakage can also occur during walk, running or aerobic exercise. The cause is, the bladder muscles or muscles in urethra has weakened.
