We treat incontinence in women at home

Among women of different ages, a urological disease is common - incontinence. It is especially common in a lady after 35 years. Because of frequent urge to urinate, the woman does not have time to reach the toilet room. There are various effective methods for treating incontinence in women at home.

• Causes of the disease
• Which doctor heals
• Situations
• Stress incontinence
• When you cough
• Urinary incontinence at night
• How to treat incontinence after childbirth
• Than to treat in advanced age
• Treatment with folk remedies
• Herbs
• Special exercises
• How to train a bubble
• Treatment with medicines
• Pills
• Driptane
• Spazmex
• Oxybutynin
• Using pessary
• Prevention of disease

Important!The described problem happens when a woman loses control over the muscles of the bladder. Against the background of lifting weights, during the laughter or sneezing, urine is released spontaneously. Unfortunately, this happens more often in the daytime.

Causes of the disease

The main factors affecting the failure in the body:

• age, aging of the organism;
• lack of estrogen;
• diseases of cranial and spinal nerves;
• diseases of the central nervous system;
• the result of trauma to the nerve trunks that regulate urination;
• sports loads;
• work associated with heavy physical labor;
• heavy weight;
• spinal cord injury;
• the presence of diseases (diabetes, bladder cancer, stroke, chronic cough).

Important!This disease is aggravated by malnutrition, consumption of alcoholic beverages, antidepressants.

Which doctor heals

A large percentage of the fair sex suffers from this ailment. Some hesitate to talk about this, do not know to which doctor to apply. When there is an involuntary urination, a specialist of a narrow profile, urologist-andrologist, is needed. It is this doctor that will help in the diagnosis and treatment of the problem.

Situations

There are different situations or factors in which women may experience non-arbitrary bladder spasms and urination. Let's look at the common ones.

Stress incontinence

Urinary incontinence caused by stress is the most common cause of ailment. From medicamental treatment, drugs are selected that will help solve the problem:

• alpha-adrenergic - promote the increase of muscle tone;
• duloxetine - an antidepressant, increases muscle contraction. Often used not for treatment but for relief of symptoms. The best effect can be obtained in combination with exercises;
• estrogens - hormones, is more often used with age-related atrophic vaginitis. Until the end of an unexplored drug.

When you cough

Sometimes even an ordinary cough can cause urination. In this case it is necessary to undergo a course of treatment. Involuntary excretion of urine when coughing is treated this way:

• gymnastics Kegel - a conservative method of treatment, specially developed exercises to strengthen the pelvic muscles;
• steep-free therapy is the use of weights;
• magnetic stimulation of the pelvic floor and pelvic floor, strengthening muscles;
• use of medicines (anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, hormonal);
• In rare cases, surgical intervention ("sling" surgery, surgery to relieve pain and urge to urinate).

Urinary incontinence at night

Often, during sleep, when the muscles are weakened, involuntary urination occurs. To get rid of enuresis, treatment is carried out in three main ways:

• conservative - regular performance of a number of exercises aimed at training the walls of the bladder, the muscles of the small pelvis;
• medicamentous - the reception of medicinal preparations, allowing to strengthen blood circulation in the bladder, to reduce the amount of produced urine;
• surgical - the operation to create a special loop, relieve the pain sensation and relieve the urge.

How to treat incontinence after childbirth

Weakened muscles after childbirth should recover after a while. If this pathology has not passed by itself, then a treatment is needed that provides:

• therapy with weight retention;
• gymnastics for Kegel, training of the bladder;
• physiotherapy for strengthening the pelvic muscles;
• drug treatment.

In rare cases, after consulting a specialist, he can prescribe cardinal measures:

• loop operation;
• gel operation;
• operation to strengthen the pubic-cystic ligament.

Than to treat in advanced age

Ladies of advanced years for a start appoint a set of exercises and a diet that can strengthen the pelvic muscles:

• gymnastics Kegel, a special ring for the uterus;
• Exclusion of tea, spirits, caffeinated drinks and products;
• use of gaskets, diapers.

Further it is recommended to carry out therapy with the help of weights for the vagina and take medications: Trospium chloride, Oksibutin hydrochloride, Tolterodin.

Spontaneous excretion of urine from the body at the age of 50 years can occur due to stress, increased activity of the bladder, unfinished urination process, the influence of external mechanisms. For treatment, the influencing factor is necessarily taken into account and complex treatment is used:

• prescribe antibiotics;
• drugs that restore the ability to control urination, delay the release of urine;
• recommend a special set of exercises;
• visiting physiotherapy procedures;
• surgical treatment;
• folk remedies (a common option).

A recipe for alternative medicine that will help you get rid of the problem quickly:

1. 1 tbsp. l. fennel seeds pour 250 ml of boiling water, put in a warm place for 2 hours and cover with a blanket.
2. After time, drink the infusion.

Treatment with folk remedies

There are conservative methods of treatment of the described problem. Traditional medicine is not left out. If urinary incontinence occurs due to menopause, pathological birth or for another reason, you need to pay attention to folk remedies.

Herbs

Herbs for the treatment of urinary incontinence in women:

• sage infusion (traditionally, a tablespoon of dry herb is brewed in a glass of boiling water) is taken 250 ml three times a day;
• Yarrow leaves steamed, boil in boiling water. Infusion of drinking 100 ml three times a day;
• on an empty stomach to drink a glass of fresh carrot juice;
• make infusion of St. John's wort, be sure to filter. Drink during the day instead of tea and other drinks in unlimited quantities;
• make a decoction based on fresh or dried blueberries. Drink 50 ml to four times a day;
• make a tincture on the seeds of dill and strain. Infusion helps quickly and effectively cope with the problem of urinary incontinence. You need to drink 300 ml per day, at a time (do not stretch for a few receptions).

Special exercises

Urinary incontinence arises from the inability to control the muscles of the pelvic floor. Therefore, you need to strengthen the muscles. For this purpose, special Kegel exercises have been developed that help women in the fight against the described problem.

Important!Kegel exercises, so that they show effectiveness, must be done regularly. They will contribute to the recovery, strengthen the health of the entire genitourinary system.

Doing exercises is quite simple: you need to squeeze and unclasp the muscles of the vagina up to 100 times during the day. You can do lying, sitting, while walking. The surrounding movements are not noticeable, so that finding time for Kegel exercises will work even at work.

What should be done:

• normalize weight;
• identify the types of food irritating the bladder mucosa: citrus fruits and chocolates, tomatoes and vinegar, dairy products, spices. Harmful in incontinence alcohol in any form, coffee.

How to train a bubble

It should be accustomed to go to the toilet on a strict schedule, even if in the allotted time the urge to urinate is absent. It is necessary to stimulate urination by various methods in order to be able to control desires in the future.

Treatment with medicines

Incontinence medications that are used in this disease:

1. Anticholinergic drugs. Medications help to relax the bladder, increase the volume.
2. Antidepressants. They help the person to calm down, accept the problem and start actively fighting it without fears and hysterics.

Pills

Therapy of this kind of pathology is carried out with the help of various drugs that are prescribed starting from the cause:

• Imipramine, Tofranil, Duloxetine (antidepressants);
• Ditropane, Ditrol, Oxytrol (anticholinergic drugs);
• Trospium, Darifenacin, Solifenacin, Rezirifetaroksin, Caspaicin, Botulinum toxin A (selective anticholinergics).

Most drugs have contraindications and side effects. The effectiveness of some for certain factors may exclude the effect in other cases. Recommends to use as directed by a doctor.

Driptane

Driptan is an antispasmodic with positive responses. It is noted that in a short time it relieves of discomfort, it is easily excreted from the body within two hours and has indications for any age category. Its only drawback is drowsiness. Of the side effects can be identified the following factors:

• long-term taking of tablets can lead to caries (women with dentures can not survive);
• headaches, nausea;
• deterioration of eyesight, increase of eye pressure;
• arrhythmia;
• allergy.

Apply 5 mg twice a day.

From the contraindications distinguish:

• some diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (intestinal atony, ulcerative colitis);
• children under 5 years of age and individual intolerance;
• closed angle glaucoma or bleeding.

Spazmex

Positive reviews of many women who suffer from involuntary urine output testify to the effectiveness of Spasmox. The drug helps to reduce the tone of the muscles of the urinary tract. Treatment with these pills is determined by the doctor, the duration of the course is up to three months.

The drug has contraindications and side effects. It is forbidden to take when:

• tachyarethmy;
• myasthenia gravis;
• retention of urination;
• glaucoma;
• during lactation;
• during pregnancy;
• children under 14 years.

Oxybutynin

Oxibutinin is an antispasmodic that is used for cystitis, enuresis, and weakness of the bladder. The drug relieves spasm, muscle makes more elastic, controls the urge to urinate, reduces their number. Has a significant number of contraindications and side effects, is used by the doctor's prescription.

Important!Apply recommended before eating 5 mg 2-3 times a day.

Using pessary

A special medical device made of rubber. Inserted into the vagina up to the cervix to create additional pressure on the walls of the urethra, to support the muscular wall.

The device helps maintain the urethra in the closed position, which means that the fluid in the bladder is maintained during exercise. Devices of this type are used constantly.

Prevention of disease

What is important for prevention:

1. Quit smoking (reduce the number of cigarettes).
2. Try to drink less during the day.
3. Review medications that are taken continuously. Involuntary urination is a side effect of many medications.

These are the main methods of treating urinary incontinence in women at home. You need to see the doctor and determine the cause of the pathology, with the consent of the doctor, start drinking certain herbs, doing Kegel exercises. If treatment does not help, you need to develop a strategy together with your doctor.