What is the cause of urine leakage in middle-aged and elderly women?

  Urinary incontinence is a more common condition in middle-aged and older women. There are four main types of clinical incontinence: true incontinence, urge incontinence, stress incontinence, and overflow incontinence. True incontinence is the inability to control urine due to damage to the urethral sphincter and is less common. Urge incontinence is manifested as a sense of urine when there is no time to go to the toilet urine will leak out, and sometimes open the tube and other reflex urine will flow out; stress incontinence is manifested as coughing, jumping, down the stairs, lifting heavy objects and any other abdominal exertion, there will be urine leakage, and even laughing, sneezing urine will flow out; overflow incontinence is mainly due to various reasons caused by the difficulty of urination in the bladder in urine After the fullness, the pressure in the bladder and the resistance of the urethra to reach a balance, urine slowly seeping out along the urethra, generally occurring more in patients with neurogenic bladder with weak bladder contraction, such as diabetes and post-stroke patients. The common clinical incontinence in middle-aged and elderly women is mostly stress incontinence.  Although urinary incontinence is not a major disease, it seriously affects the quality of life of patients such as daily life and social activities, and many patients are afraid to participate in social activities for this reason. “Urinary incontinence” brings physical pain and psychological stress to many middle-aged and elderly women. But because people do not know enough about this disease, only 10-20% of them really go to the hospital for treatment, and a considerable number of patients do not receive timely and effective treatment. Some think that people may be old, not a disease to see; some are afraid of jokes, difficult to say; some want to see the hospital do not know to see that department, coupled with the previous surgical treatment effect is not good, so many patients live in the torture of long-term pain.