Urinary incontinence when coughing hard

Coughing due to a cold is a very common thing, but if coughing hard causes urinary incontinence, wouldn’t that be a scary thing? In fact, you must not think that this kind of thing rarely happens. In fact, many people in real life have experienced this situation, such as women after their first childbirth. Even without coughing, urine will flow out unconsciously just by walking normally. This is what we call urinary incontinence. So what kind of disease is this?

Urine will flow out involuntarily when coughing, sneezing, walking briskly, or even standing. Pants are often wet, which makes many women with urinary incontinence extremely embarrassed. What needs our attention is that in our country, many women, due to misunderstanding, believe that they cannot hold their urine, and that wetting their pants is something embarrassing to talk about, and are even more reluctant to seek medical attention. As a result, the impact of urinary incontinence is often ignored by family members, while the pain caused by the disease is borne by the patient alone.

Urinary incontinence is a painful disease for women

Urine can leak out uncontrollably when pressure builds up in the abdomen, such as when you cough, sneeze, laugh, lift something heavy, or even when you have a bowel movement. When the urethra moves out of its normal position (prolapses) due to weakened pelvic floor muscles, the function that keeps the bladder outlet closed becomes weakened, resulting in stress incontinence.

The incidence of urinary incontinence in adult women is 38.5%, of which 60% is stress urinary incontinence. Stress urinary incontinence is a non-fatal disease that seriously affects women's quality of life. More than 90% of its cause is anatomical stress urinary incontinence caused by relaxation of pelvic floor tissue. The main causes include congenital diseases (such as epispadias), pregnancy, childbirth, vaginal or urethral surgery, and a decrease in estrogen after menopause, which can cause relaxation of the muscles and nerves at the pelvic floor, injury to the nerves related to bladder function, and injury to the sphincter of the bladder and urethra, resulting in an inability to control urine in the bladder when abdominal pressure increases, causing urine to flow out.

Correct the misunderstanding and check and treat urinary incontinence early

Urinary incontinence is a common and frequently occurring disease, especially among elderly women. However, no matter what the cause of urinary incontinence is, in addition to causing physical discomfort, more importantly, it will affect the patient's quality of life in the long term and seriously affect the patient's mental health. It is called "non-lethal social cancer" and causes great psychological pressure on patients, such as mental depression, loss of self-esteem, irritability, and refusal to travel, which brings great inconvenience to the patient's life. Therefore, for patients with urinary incontinence and their families, in addition to correcting the previous misunderstanding that "inability to hold urine" is not a disease, they must also adopt active coping strategies and go to the hospital for examination and treatment in a timely manner.