Incontinence

Question 1

What is incontinence?

Answer 1

When you cannot hold your urine and randomly urinate this is because the detrusor muscle contract causing urine to flow out

Question 2

Two types of incontinence?

Answer 2

Urge incontinence:
- detrousor muscle contracts randomly espescially at night
- treatment can be relaxation techniques + antimuscarenics ( relax the muscle)

Stress incontinence:
Happens due to increase abdominal pressure like
-sneezing
-coughing
-laughing
-pregnancy

Question 3

What is overflow continence?

Answer 3

This is problem with emptying bladder

due to hypertrophic prostate

Ineffective detrusor muscle