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Urinary incontinence
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Risk factors
- Aging: What to expect as you get older Explore the natural changes that are part of the normal aging process.
Symptoms
- Symptom Checker Use this Symptom Checker to pinpoint possible causes of your medical symptoms.
Tests and diagnosis
- Urinalysis Urinalysis — Overview covers definition, preparation and results of this common laboratory test.
- Cystoscopy Cystoscopy — Overview covers definition, risks, results of this procedure to examine your bladder.
Causes
- Spinal cord injury Spinal cord injury — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of damage to the spinal cord.
- Prostatitis Prostatitis — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this condition affecting a man's prostate gland.
- Prostate cancer Prostate cancer — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatments of this common cancer.
- Multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment of this nerve condition.
- Interstitial cystitis Interstitial cystitis — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment, self-care of this painful bladder inflammation.
- Bladder cancer Bladder cancer — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms and treatment of bladder cancer.
- Prostate gland enlargement Prostate gland enlargement — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment.
Treatments and drugs
- Bladder control problems: Medications for treating urinary incontinence Bladder control problems — Discover which medications may relieve symptoms of urinary incontinence.
- Urinary incontinence: Incontinence products to help keep you dry Incontinence products — Explore devices that can alleviate urine leakage and other bladder control problems.
- Bladder control problems in women: How to seek treatment Bladder control problems can be managed or overcome. The first step is to seek treatment.
- Urinary incontinence surgery: When other treatments aren't enough Urinary incontinence surgery — Understand surgical options for treating stress incontinence and overactive bladder.
Lifestyle and home remedies
- Bladder control problems in women: Lifestyle strategies for relief Bladder control problems may respond to bladder training and avoidance of bladder irritants.
- Dietary fiber: Essential for a healthy diet A high-fiber diet offers many health benefits. Here's how to increase your fiber intake.
Alternative medicine
- Hypnosis: Another way to manage pain, kick bad habits Hypnosis — how it works and what conditions it may help.
- Acupuncture: Can it help? Acupuncture is one of the oldest therapies in the world, but does it really work?
Prevention
- Kegel exercises: How to strengthen pelvic floor muscles Kegel exercises — Instructions for how to perform strengthening exercises for your pelvic floor muscles.
