Suggest Remedy For Urge Incontinence In An Overweight Person

Posted on Fri, 6 Feb 2015

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Question : I am a 39 year old woman. I know I am overweight. I recently have started having issues making it to the bathroom before urinating. I will just start to go while walking. I can't seem to control it.

Answered by Dr. Som Biswas (18 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Its urine infection Most probably

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

I can understand your concerns. What you are having is called urge incontinence.

Urge incontinence occurs when you have a sudden urge to urinate. In urge incontinence, the bladder contracts when it should not, causing some urine to leak through the sphincter muscles

The commonest cause is urinary infection.

I will advise you to get a urinanalysis and urine culture and microscopy and gram stain to look for possible infection.

Regards

Dr Som MD

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Prasad