Overactive bladder disorder is a common and prevalent disease that seriously affects the quality of life of patients, how to effectively treat it? There is actually a very simple and effective method, and that is behavioral training.
Behavioral training includes lifestyle interventions, bladder training, and pelvic floor muscle training.
Lifestyle interventions include controlling the amount and timing of water intake, evenly distributing water throughout the day, avoiding large amounts of water at once, generally in 6-8 drinks, and not beneficial to drink before going to bed; secondly, to limit the intake of alcohol, carbonic acid, sweeteners and caffeinated foods and beverages; furthermore, to develop good bowel habits, more dietary fiber intake, to keep the bowels open, regular bowel movements; finally, to maintain a reasonable Finally, it is important to maintain a reasonable body weight, avoid being overweight, and to stop smoking and drinking.
The main purpose of bladder training is to inhibit unstable bladder contractions and increase bladder capacity, drink more water during the day, urinate regularly, and try to extend the interval between urination, and try to distract yourself when you feel the urge to urinate is obvious, and then urinate when the urge disappears or is reduced. Distraction can be achieved by slow deep breathing or simple self-motivation.
Pelvic floor muscle training is also commonly known as anal lift training, that is, contracting the anus for 5 to 10 seconds and then relaxing it, the contraction and relaxation time should be consistent, avoiding too fast or too slow. In order to avoid overworking the anal lift muscles, you need to exercise 150-200 sets per day, divided into 10 time periods to complete, each time period to complete 15-20 sets, to be consistent, usually 6-8 weeks will take effect.
Although behavioral training is a very effective form of treatment, it sometimes needs to be further combined with medication or surgery.