Advice on urinary incontinence

The loss of bladder control is not a disease but a symptom with a host of causes. It can affect anyone from children to the elderly, both women and men. The 4 types of incontinence are:

• Stress incontinence

• Overflow incontinence

• Urge incontinence

• Mixed incontinence

Try these methods

• Diary maintenance is the best way to keep a record of the time of urination, the volume and the amount of fluid consumption.
  
  
  

• Check out for locally available adult diapers or disposable briefs.

• Nicotine stimulates bladder, resulting in a cough, thereby leading to stress incontinence.

• Shed extra weight in the abdominal region, to prevent stress on the pelvic muscles, through the bladder.
  
  
  

• Empty your bladder, before going out.