URINARY INCONTINENCE

What are the types of incontinence female suffering from?

There are 4 types of urinary incontinence.

• Stress urinary incontinence: - urine leak while coughing, sneezing, laughing or lifting weight is called Stress urinary incontinence.
• Usually, due to weakness of perineal muscles due to multiple pregnancies, virginal deliveries, obstructed labor SUI starts.
• So, many females believe its part of ageing & normal phenomena.
• It can be improved withkegle’s exercise, or medical treatment with Tab. Duloxetine, but the results are suboptimal.
• SUI mainly treated with surgical treatment with either Prolene mesh or autologous tissue.

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RECURRENT URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS

What is RECURRENT UTI?
Recurrences of uncomplicated and or complicated UTIs, with a frequency of at least three UTIs/year or two UTIs in the last six months.

Uncomplicated UTIs
An uncomplicated UTI is one that occurs in a healthy host in the absence of structural or functional abnormalities of the urinary tract. Recurrent uncomplicated UTI may be defined as 3 or more uncomplicated UTIs in 12 months.

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OVERACTIVE BLADDER

Overactive bladder, also called OAB, causes a frequent and sudden urge to urinate that may be difficult to control. You may feel like you need to pass urine many times during the day and night, and may also experience involuntary loss of urine (urgency incontinence).

Symptoms

• Feel a sudden urge to urinate that's difficult to control
• Urinate frequently, usually eight or more times in 24 hours
• Wake up more than two times in the night to urinate (nocturia)
• Along with above symptoms pt may have urine leak.

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