The causes of urinary incontinence are many, and can be identified by the presence of childbirth, surgery, prostate enlargement, and related symptoms.
1. Childbirth: The function of the muscles that control the bladder decreases due to labor and delivery, and it is also possible to damage the nerves of the bladder, which in turn leads to urinary incontinence after delivery, which is mostly due to stress urinary incontinence.
2. Prolapsed uterus: women may have prolapsed uterus, which presses on the bladder and leads to urinary incontinence, mostly stress incontinence, which is caused by coughing, sneezing and other behaviors that lead to high intra-abdominal pressure, resulting in urinary incontinence.
3. Prostatic hyperplasia: male patients with prostatic hyperplasia may also experience urinary incontinence, usually filling incontinence, due to prostatic hyperplasia resulting in a gradual increase in the amount of residual urine caused by urinary retention, when the pressure in the bladder is greater than the pressure of the urethra of the prostate gland, urinary incontinence will occur.
Urinary incontinence may also be caused by brain and spinal cord diseases, or urinary tract infections, bladder tumors, urinary tract stones, congenital thought ureteral opening and other causes, to promptly go to the hospital, improve the examination to clarify the diagnosis.