Urinary incontinence: How can I overcome it?

My father is 98 years old and in good health, except for urinary incontinence. Doctor, do you have any methods to help me overcome this? (Hoang Kha)

Your father's disorder is called in medicine...urinary incontinenceTo treat this disorder, it's first necessary to accurately identify the cause. Therefore, you should take your father to see a nephrologist or urologist for further tests to aid in diagnosis and receive treatment guidance.

To help you understand this disorder better, I will present some common causes and treatments for urinary incontinence in older adults.

1. Stress urinary incontinence

In older adults, mild strenuous activities such as coughing, straining, and belching increase intra-abdominal pressure and can cause urinary incontinence. Therefore, the solution is to limit, adjust, and "control" these strenuous activities.

2. Urinary incontinence due to overactive bladder

Often caused by neurological disorders or spinal cord injuries, patients typically experience an urge to urinate but incomplete emptying of the bladder (urine remains in the bladder). The solution is "urinary training": straining to empty the bladder and trying to hold back urine when it's not absolutely necessary.

3. Urinary incontinence due to an overfilled bladder. This is common in people with diabetes who have nerve damage affecting the bladder. The nerve condition needs to be treated properly.

4. Functional urinary incontinence: not due to the above causes. Most common in the elderly due to loss of control and cognitive impairment, a consequence of the aging process. Very difficult to treat.

Here is some additional information about urinary incontinence in the elderly, hopefully it will help you better understand this disorder so you can work with your father's doctor in his treatment.

According to VnExpress - NT