Perhaps you have noticed that it costs more to hold urine and causes that have small losses. It is a common problem, one in four Spanish suffers from urinary incontinence. However 65% of affected do not seek solutions considering that it is a normal process linked to menopause (37%), because they believe that there is 25% solution or the feeling of shame that generates talk to them about it. Study data are i urinary ncontinencia and quality of life in women in primary care. And it is that today there are still many misconceptions about this problem.
1. It is false that is an exclusive disease of older women . The weakening of the pelvic floor, which is the muscle that surrounds the bladder, is greater as the years pass and that increases the risk of incontinence . However, this can occur at any age and other factors (such as overweight, jobs that require physical exertion, constipation, chronic cough or childbirth) can favor it . In fact, 5% of working women under 45 suffer urine leakage. In addition 15% of men over 65 suffer from it and causes often related to prostate problems.
2. Stress incontinence caused losses running, jumping, coughing, laughing, etc. It is due to a weakening of the muscles of soil pélvico. Los known Kegel exercises (which involve making voluntary contractions of the bladder muscle) serve to reinforce it . In addition, Chinese balls and pessaries which are tapered devices, achieve the same effect. Both are placed 15 minutes a day on the vagina and should make muscle contractions that do not fall.
3. There is some belief that if you have incontinence have to take less liquid that is false, because drinking less makes the urine more concentrated, which irritates the bladder and then you need to urinate more often. Fluid intake should be normal, without excaderse because it dilates the bladder. Avoid possible alcohol and tea because they are diuretics and increase urine formation.
4. A little exercise help but stop hurting too incotinencia in women . There are some exercises that help strengthen the pelvic floor. But we have seen that the professional, by making too abdiminal force, athletes push the bladder and the sphincter that makes work harder to avoid losses. In the long run it is weakened.
