Tips to Live With an Overactive Bladder (OAB)- Slideshow

Urinary Incontinence

Over Active Bladder(OAB)is a condition in which a person frequently feels an uncontrollable urge to urinate.

This can occur even when the bladder is not full.
Symptoms

If you notice the following symptoms, please consult a Urologist or your doctor-

Uncontrollable urgency to urinate

Sometimes loss of urine after the urge

Frequent urination

Urinating in small quantities
Causes

Involuntary contraction of bladder muscles

Bladder infection

Neurological diseases - Multiple Myeloma, Stroke or Parkinson's disease

Diuretic medications
Diagnosis

Physical examination

Urine test

Cystoscopy to look inside the bladder to check for any abnormalities

Urodynamics study to analyze bladder storage and voiding functions
Treatment - Medications

Here's the good news - OAB can be cured!

One of the treatment methods is by administering drugs that are called anticholinergic and anti-spasmodics.

Antibiotics are useful in case of associated bladder infections.
Treatment for Urine Leakage with OAB - Kegel exercises

Specific exercises, called Kegel exercises, are done by contracting and relaxing the pelvic floor muscles.

This strengthens the muscles that control the bladder and helps to contain urinary incontinence
Treatment - Surgery

When all other options have failed, surgery to increase the size of the bladder is done.
Seek Cure
Remember OAB is curable.

Seek a doctor when the symptoms appear.

Find help!

Join Support Group.

Some hospitals has a Nurse specialist- speak to her

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