Why can’t women hold their urine?

Many female friends, especially those who reach middle age, find that they sometimes cannot hold their urine. They often cannot hold their urine when lifting heavy objects or laughing happily. They wet their pants before they even run to the toilet. This is okay at home, but it is too embarrassing in public. After all, they are not children anymore, but they can still wet their pants. But many people don't take it seriously and think it's no big deal. So, why can’t women hold their urine?

Speaking of the problem of being unable to hold back urine (medically known as "urinary incontinence"), it is actually very common among women, especially those who have given birth or older women, but the symptoms vary in severity. Some gynecological experts remind female friends: diseases have no age or high or low status. Middle-aged and elderly women, including some young mothers, should pay attention to these sudden symptoms in their bodies. Don't be afraid to seek medical treatment and delay the treatment.

Urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine. Normal urine storage and urination are carried out under the coordination of bladder pressure and urethral pressure. Therefore, any reason that causes excessive bladder pressure or decreased urethral resistance during the storage period will cause urinary incontinence.

The causes of urinary incontinence can be roughly divided into the following situations:

1. Birth injury. When women give birth, the pelvic muscles are damaged to varying degrees, which reduces their ability to support multiple organs in the pelvic cavity, leading to urethral prolapse or uterine prolapse, and thus stress urinary incontinence. The incidence rate of this disease in women who give birth naturally is higher than that in women who give birth by caesarean section.

2. Obesity. As women age and their activity levels decrease, they tend to accumulate a lot of fat in their abdomens, which increases abdominal pressure and puts greater pressure on the bladder.

3. Estrogen secretion levels decrease. Estrogen has an effect on the development of epithelial cells in the female reproductive organs. As women age, as estrogen levels decrease, the urethral mucosa atrophies and the urethral opening and urethral epithelium become thinner. In addition, the pelvic floor muscles relax and the tension of the striated muscles around the posterior urethra also disappears, making urinary incontinence more likely to occur.

Many female friends are afraid to go out too far for this reason, and are embarrassed to tell the reason, so it still brings certain impact to the patients. Don’t avoid checking and seeking medical treatment because you are embarrassed, otherwise it will affect your life more and more. I hope that after everyone finds the above symptoms, they should seek treatment as soon as possible. I wish you all a speedy recovery!