How to treat stress incontinence

Female urinary incontinence is a common condition among women, with a current prevalence of nearly 50% according to global statistics, and severe incontinence of about 7%, about half of which is stress incontinence. The prevalence rate in China is basically equal to this. Such a large number of people with the disease has a serious impact on women’s quality of life and health status. Due to socio-economic and cultural factors, as well as women’s shame about urinary anomalies, female stress incontinence has not been emphasized by both doctors and patients for a long time. With the rapid growth of China’s national economy and the rapid improvement of people’s living standards, female stress urinary incontinence brought about by a number of health and social problems are gradually being emphasized. First, the type of urinary incontinence 1, stress incontinence: the patient in coughing sneezing laughing and exercise and other sudden increase in abdominal pressure action, the urine involuntarily discharged or leakage. 2, urge incontinence: the emergence of a sudden strong urination, the urine is rapidly discharged. When this happens it is often too late to go to the toilet has wet his pants. Patients will wake up several times at night due to this strong urgency to urinate. 3.Mixed incontinence: patients have both stress incontinence and urge incontinence. 4, overflow incontinence: it occurs when the bladder can not be completely emptied, which may be caused by nerve dysfunction or urethral obstruction that prevents the urine from being discharged. Stress urinary incontinence, also known as SUI, is a sudden, involuntary urination that occurs during normal daily activities. You may have SUI if you urinate during any of the following activities: 1) coughing, sneezing, or laughing; 2) walking or lifting heavy objects; 3) standing up from a seated or prone position. Sixth, the treatment of stress urinary incontinence three, conservative treatment 1, pelvic floor muscle training This method is convenient, easy to implement, effective, applicable to all types of stress urinary incontinence. Currently there is no uniform training method, the consensus is that the pelvic floor muscles must reach a considerable amount of training may be effective. The following method can be referred to: continuous contraction of the pelvic floor muscles (anal lifting movement) 2-6 seconds, relaxation rest 2-6 seconds, and so repeated 10-15 times. Training 3-8 times a day for more than 8 weeks or longer. 2. Weight loss Obesity is a clear correlate of stress urinary incontinence in women. Losing weight can help prevent stress urinary incontinence. Obese women with stress urinary incontinence who lose 5-10% of their body weight will have more than a 50% reduction in the number of episodes of incontinence. 3, other: quit smoking, change dietary habits, vaginal weight training, electrical stimulation therapy, magnetic stimulation therapy. Surgery The main indications for surgical treatment include: 1, non-surgical treatment is not effective or can not adhere to, can not tolerate, the expected results of poor patients. 2, moderate to severe stress urinary incontinence. 2.Medium and severe stress urinary incontinence, patients who seriously affect the quality of life. 3.Patients with high quality of life requirements. 4.Accompanied by pelvic organ prolapse and other pelvic floor function lesions requiring pelvic floor reconstruction, should be performed at the same time anti-stress urinary incontinence surgery.