It’s not surprising that incontinence can make it difficult to get a proper night’s rest. Urinary incontinence is defined as the unintentional loss of urine. Many women are used to the feeling of leaking when they laugh or cough. That’s known as stress urinary incontinence—when physical movement or activity puts …
Many of us know the feeling: laugh at a joke, sneeze or cough and suffer an embarrassing leak of urine. This condition, known as stress urinary incontinence, affects twice as many women as men.1 Urine leaks happen due to a loss of control during an activity—causing urine to be released …
As women get older, many of us deal with leaking urine. The condition known as urinary incontinence can be embarrassing, and even lead to isolation and depression. If you’ve got this problem, you’re not alone. If you haven’t yet been diagnosed with incontinence, you may be wondering if it will …
Incontinence is no laughing matter, and you might not like the thought of facing surgery to fix it. If you’re suffering from stress urinary incontinence, or SUI, you have options for treatment besides an operation. Urinary Incontinence Continence is your ability to control your bladder and bowel, so incontinence is …
Incontinence can cause you to feel embarrassed, lead to isolation and make you limit your work and social life. Knowing all that, can incontinence be cured? Types of Incontinence Continence is the ability to control your bladder and bowel, so the condition of incontinence is an involuntary loss of bladder …
It’s easy to take your bladder for granted, until something goes wrong. You likely don’t even realize it’s there, other than when it lets you know it’s time to pee. It quietly does its job—it holds urine and then gives you the signal that it needs emptying. Most of us …
Leaking urine is no laughing matter, although if you suffer from stress urinary incontinence, you often leak urine when you laugh. Stress urinary incontinence—or SUI as it’s commonly called—is a condition whereby urine accidentally leaks when you exert pressure on your bladder. That can happen by coughing, sneezing, laughing, running, …
We’ve all heard that exercise is a benefit to our physical and mental health. It can help ward off conditions like high blood pressure, lessen depression and anxiety and of course aid in weight control.1 But does specific exercise benefit specific conditions? For instance, can pelvic floor exercises help with …
Women suffering from fecal incontinence may avoid exercise, worried about accidents and embarrassment. But can exercise help with fecal incontinence? It just may, so consider what exercise should still be practiced if you have fecal incontinence.
Many women suffer from some form of incontinence, and some are too embarrassed to speak to their doctor. But there are effective treatment options for urinary and fecal incontinence, and in some instances incontinence can be cured.
