Other names: urinary incontinence, bladder weakness, incontinentia urinae
Maintaining power is tied to functions controlled urethral sphincter nerve activity and also depends on the tension of the bladder wall. Once this pressure will outweigh sphincter tone, will leak urine.
Elderly people often have already flabby sphincter muscle, and therefore are unable or sometimes even still keep urine. This condition is called incontinence . However, it may also occur in humansafter spinal cord injuries, which interrupts nerve supply. Unfortunately, in both cases, is not this condition has somehow reversed, and you have to use diapers.
In permanent disability can be connected to an indwelling urinary catheter (catheter) when his urine flows directly into the bag.
The inability to hold your urine can also be seen in children, which is roughly five years tolerated as normal. Sometimes even older children may be more wet oneself at night, not during it not a disease, but the child can suffer worse (feelings of inferiority, fear of disclosure of embarrassing incidents, etc.). It is usually caused by reduced activity of a hormone (antidiuretic hormone – ADH), which otherwise causes retention of urine at night, or when the body is dehydrated.
Therapeutically in this case may apply given synthetic ADH or imipramine. Discuss it with your pediatrician!
But there are other reasons for enuresis in older (school) children – excessive stress, family problems etc.
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