Incontinence: Medications & Treatments


Stress urinary incontinence, urgency urinary incontinence and overactive bladder, mixed incontinence, chronic retention of urine, fecal incontinence are all common types of incontinence. Stress urinary incontinence occurs because of weak deficient urethral sphincter, which causes the bladder to leak during exercise, sneezing, or any other movement which puts pressure on bladder. This problem affects both men and women. Urgency urinary incontinence and OAB is the urgent requirement to pass urine and inability to get to a toilet in time. Mixed incontinence is very common and symptoms of both stress and urgency types of incontinence are present therein. Chronic retention of urine is a kind of leakage, occurring when the quantity of urine produced exceeds the bladder