What to do about urinary incontinence in women during menopause

Menopause in women is a physical and physiological condition that occurs after menstruation stops. Generally during menopause, patients will experience symptoms such as dizziness, irritability, and numbness in the hands and feet. If this situation is not treated and controlled effectively in time, it is likely to cause other disease symptoms in the body. So what should women do about menopausal urinary incontinence? Now let us introduce it in detail.

Mild cases of urinary incontinence can be treated with behavioral therapy or medication. Behavioral therapy can be implemented by continuously contracting the pelvic floor muscles (ani levator exercise) for 2-6 seconds, relaxing and resting for 2-6 seconds, and repeating this 10-15 times. Train 3-8 times a day for 8 weeks or longer. The purpose is to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles and reduce urinary incontinence. This conservative treatment is only suitable for patients with mild stress urinary incontinence, such as younger women, or those who have mild urinary incontinence after activities; for moderate to severe patients, conservative treatment alone is difficult to achieve the desired effect, and surgical treatment must be adopted - transvaginal tension-free mid-urethral sling.

However, not all patients with urinary incontinence need to use sling patch surgery. For example, for patients with stress urinary incontinence accompanied by cystocele, this surgery alone cannot solve the problem of urinary incontinence. Bladder prolapse also needs to be resolved to completely solve the problem of urinary incontinence. Therefore, before surgery, it is best for patients with urinary incontinence to find out the cause, such as whether it is bladder prolapse, overactive bladder, or urge urinary incontinence. Zhang Xinling pointed out that real-time three-dimensional ultrasound examination can play a very good role in the diagnosis of urinary incontinence and the evaluation of therapeutic effects. Therefore, it is very important to find out the cause and type before surgery.

Frequent urinary incontinence can also cause recurrent eczema, bedsores, skin infections and urethritis in the perineum, and there will be a urine odor on the body. Although this is not life-threatening, it will have a greater impact on female patients. Therefore, experts point out that once urinary incontinence causes inconvenience to your life, you should actively seek treatment.

After symptoms of menopausal urinary incontinence occur in women, they can be treated and controlled according to the methods introduced above. In normal times, we should actively develop good living habits and eating habits, so as to achieve good maintenance effects. If the symptoms of menopause are severe, timely medication and other methods should be used for treatment and control.