Editor’s note: Bladder leakage, which can be caused by something as simple as a sneeze, is a common, annoying and even embarrassing condition for millions of women. But there are ways to manage and treat it. Here, the experts from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, one of the National Institutes… Continue reading Managing Urinary Incontinence
Category: Urinary Health
Got an Overactive Bladder?
If you have an overactive bladder, don’t despair. There are FDA-approved treatments that can help control your symptoms. People with overactive bladder have a bladder muscle that squeezes too often or squeezes without warning. This can lead to troubling urinary symptoms such as: The need to urinate too often (urinary frequency), which is defined as… Continue reading Got an Overactive Bladder?
Improving Bladder Function After Spinal Cord Injuries
People who have suffered spinal cord injuries are often susceptible to bladder infections, and those infections can cause kidney damage and even death. Research done at the University of California, Los Angeles may go a long way toward solving the problem. A team of scientists studied 10 paralyzed rats that were trained daily for six… Continue reading Improving Bladder Function After Spinal Cord Injuries
Local Body Clock & Overactive Bladder
Researchers at the University of Surrey in the UK have discovered that the local biological clock and its control are weakened in aging bladders. The study, which explains how the receptors responsible for contractions in the bladder regulate the body’s clock genes, was published August 21st 2014 in The FASEB Journal. The team found that this clock activity in turn regulates the cycle of all cells in the body.
Dr. Marie’s Help for Incontinence
A 2008 article in the New England Journal of Medicinearticle revealed that 25 percent of perimenopausal women and 40 percent of postmenopausal women report leakage of urine. ThirdAge medical expert Marie Savard, M.D., author of "Ask Dr. Marie," says that the main causes of this annoying condition are decreased estrogen levels and aging pelvic muscles that are losing strength. She adds that obesity can exacerbate the condition, as can asthma, diabetes, a chronic cough, and medications such as diuretics, antihistamines, and antidepressants.