What is the reason why women cannot hold back their urination frequently?

Many women often experience frequent urination and cannot hold their urine when they are walking or working. This may be caused by too much fatigue from work or by a certain gynecological disease. This condition is medically known as urinary incontinence, and there are many causes of urinary incontinence in women. Let’s talk about why women have frequent and difficult urination.

There are three common types of urinary incontinence in women

The most common urinary incontinence in women includes stress urinary incontinence, urge urinary incontinence and mixed stress urge urinary incontinence. Stress urinary incontinence, also known as tension urinary incontinence, refers to the uncontrolled and involuntary flow of urine when abdominal pressure suddenly increases due to coughing, sneezing, laughing, standing up, etc. This is the most common type of urinary incontinence among women. Women of all ages can be affected, especially those who have given birth to children with a history of difficult labor or who suffer from uterine prolapse, bladder and urethral prolapse. After menopause, women lack estrogen, which causes the urethra to become thinner, reducing the resistance through the urethra and making urinary incontinence more common.

Urge urinary incontinence refers to the sudden urge to urinate, and the feeling is very strong, as if you can't hold it in any longer. Often when this happens, you don't have time to go to the toilet before you wet your pants. The most common cause is a urinary tract infection.

Stress and urge incontinence often occur together in women, which is often called mixed incontinence. The main reasons include that the female urethra is shorter than the male urethra, averaging only 3-5 cm; the pelvis is wide and the muscle support is weak; the urethral sphincter is relaxed; pregnancy and childbirth cause damage to the pelvic floor muscles; the estrogen level of women decreases after middle age and the urethral mucosa atrophies; surgery causes anatomical changes to the pelvis, etc.

In this situation, the best solution is to go to the hospital for medical treatment in time, but many women are unwilling to go to the hospital to see a doctor due to face, and always endure the pain silently. This practice is very wrong. Urinary incontinence is not a very difficult disease to treat. It can be completely controlled and cured through treatment, so it is better to treat it as early as possible.