An Over Active Bladder (or OAB) is a syndrome which manifests with symptoms of urgency – with or without urge incontinence. This usually involves bladder frequency, disrupting your daily activities, and nocturia, interrupting your sleep at night.
Bladder frequency inevitably means that you suddenly get the urge to rush to the rest room on a regular basis and if you ignore the message, you can end up with involuntary leakage. This loss of bladder control is known as urge incontinence and is due to an uncontrollable bladder muscle contraction when it is filling with urine. It allows very little time between the initiation of the signal that you need to pee and the actual urination.
Bladder Frequency Treatments can involve lifestyle changes that help to retrain the bladder muscles – double voiding, timed urination and Kegel exercises can all help. There are also a variety of medications – both conventional and alternative – and the final resort is surgery.
Originally posted 2010-08-27 22:37:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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