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The woman may have to go through many tests and need to accept more than one treatment to cure this health problem. These are the common treatment for urinary incontinence:

• Personal/behavior treatment. The main objective is to identify any cause of the leakage to happen and try to avoid it. Any condition which gives pressure in the abdomen/chest, also to pelvic supporter organs tissues will be identified. Patient is suggested to:
  • Lessen body weight

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.