What to do if a woman can't hold her urine

The female urethral opening is more spacious than the male urethral opening, so the chance of female urethral opening being infected with urethritis is very high. The reason why people can hold urine with one hand is because there is a bladder in the urinary system. The main function of the bladder is to store urine and hold urine. However, some women find that when they feel the urge to urinate, they have no control over holding their urine in their bladder. What should we do if women can’t hold back urine?

1. Women’s inability to hold urine is related to factors such as stress

In fact, this is related to the pressure in life, one's age, and the environment in which one lives. However, many women do not 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.

Why can't women hold their urine?

2. Production injuries cause women to be unable to hold their urine

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 of this disease is higher in women who give birth naturally than in women who give birth by caesarean section.

3. Obesity causes women to be unable to hold their urine

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

4. Decreased estrogen secretion levels cause women to be unable to hold their urine

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 disappears, making urinary incontinence more likely to occur.