Urinary incontinence

Female Urinary Incontinence

Urinary incontinence affects 60% of women between 40 -70 years, many women suffer in silence thinking it is a normal aging process.. It posses a tremendous physical & psychological limitation to their professional and social life styles.

Child birth trauma, aging, constipation, chronic cough, and obesity are factors leading to pelvic floor muscle weakness and laxity of ligaments, causing lack of support to the bladder and urine leakage.

Types:
. Stress urinary Incontinence (SUI) : Urine leak during a cough, sneeze or laugh.
. Urge urinary incontence (UUI) : Frequent urination or compelling urge to urinate.
. Nocturnal Enuresis (NE) : Unconscious bed wetting at night.
. Overflow Incontinence : Overflow of urine after bladder is filled.

. Coital Incontinence : Loss of urine during sexual relationship.

. Athlete Incontinence: Loss of urine during sport activities.
. Urinary Fistula: Abnormal passage between the bladder and vagina.