About Adult Incontinence
Incontinence means the inability to control one’s urination. It affects everyone regardless of age, gender or form of employment, however, incontinence is more common among adults, women and those performing heavy work.
Adult incontinence is the most common among other cases of incontinence. This usually happens when a person reach an age where he can no longer control his urination. When a person suffers incontinence, he or she normally experiences unwanted urination, leading to wet underwear, pants, or one’s bed.
After knowing what adult incontinence is, the next thing to know is the various types of adult incontinence. First on the list is stress incontinence. This occurs when a person coughs, sneezes, laughs, doing heavy works, or any activity that tends to put pressure on one’s bladder. As a result of this stress related activity, the pelvic muscles become weak, and as such, it affects the performance of one’s bladder, making it unable to contract or tighten. The best way to prevent stress incontinence is to find the time to rest one’s body from a hard day’s work. Also, one must not push himself when lifting heavy objects or doing heavy activities.
Another type of adult incontinence is urge incontinence. This happens when a person has trouble in controlling his bladder when certain circumstances are at hand. For example when a person is sleeping, normally, one cannot voluntarily tighten his bladder, but the bladder itself contracts and prevents the urine from going out of the body. However, a person suffering from incontinence has a tendency of urinating while sleeping, because the bladder’s wall is affected. Other instances of urge incontinence are drinking water, listening to water running, or when the temperature is cold. In these cases over night adult diapers offer a great solution
Another is overflow incontinence. This happens the bladder is full and the urine thereafter overflows and leaks. Normally, a person can prevent the leak of urine by tightening the passage of the urine until one reaches the bathroom. However, when a person is suffering overflow incontinence, the urine just leaks and the person suffering from incontinence cannot stop it. Overflow incontinence may occur because of an enlarged prostate, weak bladder muscle, urinary stones, tumors or nerve damage from diabetes or any other disease.
Finally, we have what is commonly called as functional incontinence. This functional incontinence occurs when external obstacles, physical disabilities and other reason in preventing a person from immediately going to the bathroom when needed. An example of this incontinence is when a cripple cannot himself proceed to the bathroom unassisted or a person in comatose. In this incontinence, an adult diaper is required to be worn by the person suffering from it, or if said person is capable of going to the bathroom, he must be assisted. Nonetheless, adult diapers are very convenient.
No matter what type of adult incontinence one belongs, the results are the same, unwanted urination. As such, it is highly recommended that a person see a doctor when