What to do if the elderly often wet their pants

Elderly people often wet their pants may be due to prostate enlargement, urethritis, cystitis and other diseases, which need to be treated by choosing medication and surgery according to the cause. Drugs should be applied under the guidance of a doctor.
1. Prostatic hyperplasia: If the elderly is male, the situation of frequent urination may be caused by prostatic hyperplasia, resulting in increased urination in the elderly, no timely urination will cause urination. You can take terazosin hydrochloride tablets, alfuzosin hydrochloride tablets and other drugs, the seriousness of the condition can do transurethral resection of the prostate to treat.
2. Urethritis: Urethritis may cause frequent urination and urinary urgency due to inflammatory stimuli, and also lead to the relaxation of the urethral sphincter, unable to control urination, and the situation of the old man often peeing his pants. Need to take cefixime capsules, azithromycin capsules and other antibiotic medication, can reduce the inflammatory reaction, help the condition recovery.
3. Cystitis: If the elderly suffer from cystitis, not timely control of the condition will cause urinary incontinence, resulting in the elderly often peeing their pants. Need to take levofloxacin hydrochloride capsules, cefuroxime tablets, etc., can control the infection, improve the phenomenon of pants wetting.
Elderly people often wet their pants may also be bladder muscle atrophy, diabetes and other causes, need to go to the regular hospital in time to determine the specific cause of the symptomatic treatment.