Urinary incontinence is defined as the loss of bladder control. It affects about 25 million people in\u00a0the U.S. Symptoms can range from mild leaking to uncontrollable wetting. Two common types of\u00a0incontinence are stress incontinence, which occurs when you cough, sneeze or lift something heavy,\u00a0and urge incontinence, when you feel a constant need to go.<\/p>\n
For women, incontinence can be the result of childbirth, as well as the weakening of the pelvic muscles\u00a0when estrogen levels drop after menopause. In addition, some medications can cause incontinence,\u00a0or make it worse.<\/p>\n
Talk to your doctor:<\/strong> If you have any form of incontinence, the first step in getting\u00a0help is an honest talk with your primary care provider. They can help diagnose\u00a0what type of incontinence you have and identify what is causing it. They can also\u00a0create a treatment plan for you and, if needed, refer you to a urogynecologist\u00a0(specialist who treats urinary incontinence in females) for further treatment.<\/p>\n Check out this article for additional information >> Women and Bladder Control<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Sources: www.niddk.nih.gov<\/a> and www.baystatehealth.org\/news\/2016\/01\/incontinence<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Urinary incontinence is defined as the loss of bladder control. It affects about 25 million people in\u00a0the U.S. Symptoms can range from mild leaking to uncontrollable wetting. Two common types of\u00a0incontinence are stress incontinence, which occurs when you cough, sneeze or lift something heavy,\u00a0and urge incontinence, when you feel a constant need to go. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[1046,902,1044],"class_list":["post-11120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare","tag-bladder","tag-urinary-incontinence","tag-womens-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GettyImages-1147974101.jpg?fit=2091%2C1434&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-2Tm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11122,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions\/11122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}