Why can't women hold their urine?

A few days ago, a patient came to the hospital and said that he could not hold his urine and would wet his pants accidentally. Such things are very embarrassing, and it is difficult to understand why you suddenly can't hold your urine. In fact, this is caused by many reasons. The inability to hold urine is also called urinary incontinence, and this type of urinary incontinence is divided into urge incontinence and stress incontinence. Some women suffer from one of them, while some women have both.

In fact, this is related to the pressure in life, one's age, and the environment in which one lives. However, many women don’t know what is going on and are troubled by it all day long. 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 and your pants are wet. 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, only 3-5cm on average; 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.

Women's inability to hold urine 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, making it more common for women to be unable to hold their urine.

Why can't women hold their urine? You should know that if you can't hold your urine, it may be because you are sick, which is why this happens. If you find yourself having trouble holding your urine recently, don't be embarrassed to avoid going to the hospital for a check-up. Doing this will only make the situation worse.