Quick Tip - Adult Incontinence

Quick Tip:

Incontinence is loss of bladder control

                             

Symptoms:

• Mild leaking to uncontrollable wetting

Types of Incontinence:

• Stress Incontinence - Activities such as laughing, coughing, and sneezing can cause urine to leak unexpectedly
• Urge Incontinence - The bladder feels like it needs to be relieved immediately, regardless of how much urine is in the bladder
• Mixed Incontinence - When a person has both stress and urge incontinence
• Overflow Incontinence - Characterized by the retention of urine in the bladder after urinating, overflow incontinence is most common in men:
• Symptoms - dribbling of urine, urgency, hesitancy (waiting for the urine stream to begin), weak urine stream, straining to urinate, and urinating small amounts of urine at a time
• Dribbling Incontinence - Dribbling urine immediately after urination is completed is called dribbling incontinence
• Functional Incontinence - When people are physically unable to make it to the bathroom in time due to a physical or mental condition
• Congenital Incontinence - A child born with the bladder or ureter (s) out of place
• Neuropathic Incontinence - Problems affecting one or more nerves related to the bladder can cause different symptoms of incontinence
• Traumatic Incontinence - An injury to the pelvis, such as a fracture, or a complication of surgery can cause traumatic incontinence

Remember information is power if you are experiencing any of the symptoms above please call your health care provider immediately.

For more information please go to www.urology/channel.com, http://www.webmd.com,%20www.ask.com/

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