Stress Incontinence is a situation where one leaks urine unintentionally, while they cough or sneeze, laugh, bend over, lift something heavy, exercise or perform sex. It’s a condition of involuntary urine loss when there is pressure on a full bladder.
Stress Incontinence occurs in women whose pelvic floor muscles and the muscles that control that release of urine, have lost strength and weakened.
Apart from demanding a great deal of everyday care, the situation can result in extremely embarrassing situations, be mentally stressful, and thereby greatly affect a woman’s quality of life.
Stress Incontinence may arise due to multiple conditions such as an instrumental delivery, multiple pregnancy, chronic infection, factors of age, and obesity.
Behavioral therapies, medication and surgeries are broadly the three categories in which one can curb the effects of this condition. Learning how to do Kegel exercises may help strengthen pelvic floor muscles and the urinary sphincter. However, results depend on the frequency with which the exercises are performed.
Changes in fluid consumption with healthy lifestyle changes can help lessen the risk of Stress Incontinence and weaken the symptoms. Certain devices, such as the Vaginal Pessary or the Urethral inserts, may help control the condition. And lastly, certain surgical interventions can treat stress incontinence to improve closure of the sphincter and support the bladder neck.
