There are various treatments for urge incontinence. They include changes to behaviors, medications and surgery. Choose the right treatment after consulting your doctor.
Changes to behaviors:
- Lose weight
- Don't lift things that are too heavy
- Avoid caffeine
- Avoid drinking too much water before sleep
- Kegel exercises (Build strength of your pelvic floor muscles by contracting these muscles.)
- Bladder training (Lengthen the time gap between feeling the urge to urinate and actually urinating.)
- Timed voiding (Keep records of when you leak urine. Go to the toilet at those times and you avoid leakage.)
Medications:
- Mirabegron
- Darifenacin
- Fesoterodine
- Trospium
- Oxybutynin
- Tolterodine
- Solifenacin
Surgery:
- Reduce nerve impulse to muscles involved in urination control
- Increase the amount of urine the bladder can hold
Keyword: treatments urge incontinence
