What causes urinary incontinence in girls?

If a girl has urinary incontinence, she should check her urethra and bladder carefully, because this phenomenon may be caused by certain urinary tract infections or excessive bladder pressure. If you don’t know the cause of this phenomenon, do not take medicine indiscriminately, as this will only have unknown effects on your body. It is recommended that patients go to the urology department of a regular hospital for examination.

1. Birth injuries: multiple births, urethral prolapse, uterine prolapse, etc. This is because during childbirth, the pelvic muscles are damaged to varying degrees, and the ability to support some organs in the pelvic cavity is reduced, which can also lead to stress urinary incontinence. Clinically, it is found that the incidence of urinary incontinence in vaginal deliveries is higher than that in cesarean sections.

2. Obesity: As you get older, fat accumulates in your abdomen, which increases your abdominal pressure and puts greater pressure on your bladder.

3. Decreased estrogen levels: After menopause, women’s estrogen levels decrease, causing the urethral mucosa to become thinner and its tension to decrease.

4. Racial factors: Large-scale surveys show that Asians have a higher rate of urinary incontinence than Europeans.

5. Mental factors: work stress, high pressure, anxiety or neurotic bladder causes bladder muscle hypersensitivity, which makes it impossible to inhibit bladder contraction and causes urinary incontinence.

6. Surgical injury: direct damage to the pelvic floor muscles and nerves.