What should women do if they have urinary incontinence due to coughing? These methods are worth a try

Some women have symptoms of urinary incontinence due to coughing. This symptom is medically graded into three levels. The severity of the disease varies at different levels, and the treatment methods are also different. The following is a detailed introduction.

1. Stress urinary incontinence can be divided into three degrees according to clinical manifestations: Grade I: Urinary incontinence occurs when coughing, laughing, sneezing, exerting force, or engaging in strenuous activities. Grade II: Urinary incontinence may occur with slight exertion such as standing, walking, holding breath, or when standing up from a sitting position. Grade III: Urinary incontinence is not related to activity and can occur even in a supine position, i.e., urinary incontinence can occur anytime and anywhere.

2. When the abdominal pressure increases (such as when coughing, laughing, or sneezing) due to injuries to the muscles at the bottom of the pelvis, the nerves related to bladder function, and the sphincter of the bladder urethra, the urine cannot be controlled in the bladder and flows out. This type of urinary incontinence often occurs when women's pelvic floor muscles or local nerves are often injured during pregnancy or after childbirth, causing these muscles to relax, or when nerves are injured and the command transmission pathways are damaged.

3. Cough variant asthma is a type of asthma, and its main symptom is dry cough. (A dry cough is a cough that does not expel phlegm from the airways.) During an attack of cough variant asthma, people often do not experience other typical symptoms of asthma, such as wheezing or shortness of breath.

Prevention methods:

1. A good attitude

You should be optimistic and open-minded, face the success, failure, pressure and troubles in life and work with a positive and peaceful attitude, and learn to regulate your mood and emotions.

2. Prevent urinary tract infection

Develop the habit of wiping your hands from front to back after urinating or defecating to avoid urethral infection. Before sexual intercourse, the couple should wash the vulva with warm water. After sexual intercourse, the woman should immediately empty her urine and clean her vulva. If you experience urinary pain or frequent urination after sexual intercourse, you can take anti-urinary tract infection drugs for 3 to 5 days to quickly cure the inflammation in the early stages.

3. Have regular sex life

Studies have shown that if postmenopausal women continue to maintain regular sex lives, they can significantly delay the physiological degeneration of the ovarian function of synthesizing estrogen, reduce the incidence of stress urinary incontinence, prevent other geriatric diseases, and improve their health level.

4. Strengthen physical exercise

Strengthen physical exercise and actively treat various chronic diseases. Emphysema, asthma, bronchitis, obesity, huge tumors in the abdominal cavity, etc. can all cause increased abdominal pressure and lead to urinary incontinence. Such chronic diseases should be actively treated to improve overall nutritional status. At the same time, appropriate physical exercise and pelvic floor muscle exercises should be carried out. The easiest way is to do 45 to 100 anal tightening and anal lifting exercises every morning before getting out of bed and every night after lying down, which can significantly improve the symptoms of urinary incontinence.