How to prevent and treat female urinary incontinence

Many of our friends are familiar with urinary incontinence, but we think that it only happens to children or the elderly. However, in clinical practice, it is often found that some middle-aged and young women also have this condition. Some women suffer from stress urinary incontinence due to urethral damage after giving birth, which makes patients feel inferior and embarrassed.

Stress urinary incontinence is caused by the fact that the female urethra is anatomically shorter and the decrease in estrogen levels after menopause, which weakens the closure ability of the urethral mucosa. When various factors, such as trauma, surgery, or childbirth, affect the surrounding tissues that support the normal position of the urethra, urinary incontinence will occur after the abdominal pressure increases. The occasional inadvertent leakage of a small amount of urine has no obvious impact on your life and work and does not require medical attention or treatment. However, if urine leakage occurs due to slight increases in abdominal pressure such as coughing, and the underwear is often soaked, affecting daily life, timely diagnosis and treatment should be sought.

Most patients with stress urinary incontinence can have their disease well controlled through pelvic muscle training under the guidance of a doctor, but the effect is slow and patients need to persist in the exercise. In addition, you can also take drugs that increase urethral pressure to quickly improve symptoms. Although previous drugs for treating stress urinary incontinence, such as ephedrine, are effective, they are difficult for elderly patients to tolerate due to common cardiovascular side effects such as increased heart rate and blood pressure. Patients with severe conditions or who do not respond to drug treatment should undergo appropriate surgical treatments such as transvaginal suspension under the doctor's advice. This surgery has less trauma, better efficacy, and is commonly used clinically.

Finally, I want to remind everyone that don’t be embarrassed. If you are sick, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time, especially diseases of the urinary and reproductive system. If treatment is delayed, it will bring unpredictable consequences to the later treatment. Not only will the patient suffer more pain, but other organs will also be infected. Since the organs of the urinary and reproductive system are relatively close, they are easily deeply infected by bacteria.