Urinary incontinence is a problem that many women suffer from today. There are various remedies in medicine to solve this problem that negatively affects the quality of life.
Urinary Incontinence Treatment in Women
It is possible to treaturinary incontinence in women. Firstly, the cause of urinary incontinence should be investigated and a treatment plan should be drawn accordingly. Treatment should be planned individually. Not every patient can benefit from urinary incontinence surgery. In order to answer the question of what to do to prevent urinary incontinence, we can divide the treatment methods into non-surgical treatments and surgical treatments.
Urinary Incontinence Non-Surgical Treatments
The question of whether there is a cure for urinary incontinence is one of the questions that people who have this problem seek answers to. We should eliminate or reduce the factors that cause urinary incontinence; we should lose weight, stop smoking, restrict fluid intake, treat symptoms such as cough, sneezing, constipation and treat urinary tract infection. Restoration of bladder control should be supported with special exercises that patients can apply on their own. Urinary incontinence exercises in women can stop urinary incontinence to some extent.
Regularly performing exercises such as Kegel exercises, which we recommend to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, strengthens the pelvic floor muscles and corrects your urinary incontinence to a great extent. It is also important to organise your toilet times and limit your fluid intake.
So, what should women with urinary incontinence do? In addition to these suggestions, if you want to try a non-surgical solution to the problem of urinary incontinence, you can also try the following methods:
- Kegel exercise: It can be done in 4-5 sessions a day, each session 15-20 times, by holding the muscles used to hold your urine during urination for 5 seconds and leaving it for 5 seconds.
- Holding your urine for 3 seconds and releasing it in 3 seconds and increasing your urine holding time each time helps to strengthen your muscles.
- If there is a lack of estrogen hormone, the deficiency should be replaced.
- Drug treatment in urinary incontinence; Especially in overactive bladder, some drugs that reduce the contraction of the bladder are used. These drug treatments, which are useful in urge incontinence type, are not very useful in stress type urinary incontinence.
Urinary Incontinence Surgical Treatment
Our aim in performing urinaryincontinence surgery is to treat urinary incontinence in women by restoring the lost or reduced support of the bladder and urethra. Surgeries performed for this purpose can be in the form of suspension methods in urinary incontinence, TOT and TVT.
Suspension Methods in Urinary Incontinence
Suspension methods in urinary incontinence: TOT (Transobturator Tape), TVT (Tension Free Vaginal Tape), Mini sling method. With these short-term surgeries, which can be performed on a daily basis, but preferably the patient is recommended to stay in the hospital for one day, the bladder neck and urethra are supported, the angle disorder in the complaint of stress type urinary incontinence is supported and the complaint of urinary incontinence is largely improved. With the closed surgery technique, the bladder neck is suspended to the pubic bone with this technique, which shortens the hospital stay and accelerates the patient's comfort and recovery process.
What does TOT mean in medicine?
TOT is an operation performed to solve the problem of stress urinary incontinence. With the suspension procedure applied on the bladder neck, urinary incontinence problem is tried to be prevented. It is a frequently preferred method amongurinary incontinence surgeries. It is performed under general or spinal anaesthesia.
What is TVT Surgery?
Two of the surgical treatment methods forurinary incontinence are TVT (transvaginal tape application) and TOT (transobturator tape application) operations. These operations usually do not require hospitalisation.
Istanbul Urinary Incontinence Surgery
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