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Other than the common failing of the rushed bathroom trip, other types of urinary incontinence would include stress incontinence, the functional incontinence and the overflow incontinence. UI can range from small discomforts due to slight losses of urine and up to severe and frequent wetting of underwear.
There is also the urge incontinence, which we had already touched on. This is the inability to hold urine just enough to reach an appropriate place to pee. This abnormality is more found in people who have conditions such as stroke, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, and multiple sclerosis. However, the might also be an indication that there are other diseases which warrant more medical attention.
Stress incontinence refers to one also of the most common type of incontinence which involves uncontrollable leakage of urine on ordinary activities like exercise, sneezing, laughing, coughing, lifting of heavy objects. There are more of these body movements that leads to stress incontinence especially because of the pressure put on the bladder during such activities.
The functional incontinence pertains to urine leakage that is a result of being unable to reach an appropriate place for peeing just in time due to limiting physical conditions. An example of this physical condition is arthritis and even physical handicaps.
The last type of incontinence is the overflow which is a urine leakage that happens when the amount of urine that is produced generally exceeds what the person’s bladder can hold.
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