Posted on July 2, 2008 in Lastest News
When you think of overactive bladder, you generally associate it with disturbed sleep – how you have to get up in the middle of the night because you feel the urgency to urinate (nocturia). Worse still, think of those fellows who experience this urgency in the day time, every half an hour, while they are in the middle of an important meeting. It is a really serious issue, when a hyperactive bladder starts affecting the quality of your life.
Why Do Our Bladders Become Overactive?
Unlike people with normal bladder whose bladder fills up gently, people with overactive bladder have a sudden irrestible urge to urinate there and then or otherwise they leak. This urge is felt because their bladder muscle contracts involuntarily giving them very little time to find a right place or a right time to urinate. Overactive bladder can affect people in any age group. It is more prevalent in men and in older people. Almost a total of 17 million men and women of all ages are affected by the condition.
Ways To Deal With Overactive Bladder:
In order to tackle the problem of overactive bladder, certain lifestyle and behavorial changes are recommended by physicians. These are listed below:
- Cutting Down Consumption on Alcohol and Caffeine: Once you decrease consumption of these drinks, it will greatly improve the health of your bladder to hold urine. Moreover this will increase your kidney’s ability to reabsorb more fluid.
- Reducing Consumption of Certain Foods: Consuming foods like tomatoes and tomato-based products, sugar, citrus fruits, honey etc. can irritate the condition of your bladder considerably so that it will not be able to hold urine.
- Certain Medications: There are certain diuretics, antidepressants,cold and allergy medications, sedatives, muscle relaxants, calcium channel blockers, antihistamines which can increase your urine flow. So, consult with your doctor before taking any medications at all.
- Practice Bladder Training Technique: Under this technique, your general physician or urologist guides you to practice bladder training techniques where you will be placed on a toileting schedule. The objective is to gradually build up the time interval between each successive urination until you are placed on a normal schedule.
- Kegel Exercises: Try doing Kegel exercises 8 to 10 times per day to improve the overall strength of your pelvic floor muscles and thereby increase the capacity of your bladder to hold urine.
- Maintain a diary to keep records of voiding: On a daily basis, maintain a daily record of your overall volume (how much) and the numer of times you are running to the loo to urinate.
All the above ways give a solution for your overactive bladder that can largely be controlled by you provided you do a little alteration in your lifestyle and in your behavorial pattern.
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