UNIT 15: URINARY INCONTINENCE

Urinary (or bladder) incontinence happens when you are not able to keep urine from leaking out of your urethra, the tube that carries urine out of your body from your bladder. You may leak urine from time to time. Or, you may not be able to hold any urine. That could cause a social and psychological problem for the person suffering from it, as well as a possible limitation of the activity and relationship.

I am going to focus this post on the treatment of the urinary incontinence. Wich includes the following:

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT

• Electrostimulation: it consists in the use of a device that, by using controlled electric shocks, exercises the muscles of the pelvic floor, and therefore, the contractions of the detrusor muscle will be suppressed. It simulates the Kegel exercises.

• Modification of the environment: trying to facilitate access to bathroom, avoiding domestic physical barriers and dispose of substitute (urinals, sanitary...) or some kind of adaptation.

PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT

SURGICAL TREATMENT 

Surgery is considered an adequate treatment in patients, where conservative treatment has failed.

Bibliography

• Robles J. La incontinencia urinaria. Anales Sis San Navarra [revista en la Internet]. 2006 Ago [10 de mayo del 2013]; 29(2): 219-231. Disponible en: http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1137-66272006000300006&lng=es 

• Perdidasdeorina.com [página web]. [acceso 31 de Marzo de 2012]. Definición de incontinencia urinaria [1]. Disponible en: http://www.perdidasdeorina.com/Templates/definicion.htm