The incontinence is a condition more common among the elderly and those who already require care taker for their daily activities
. It is really a frustrating condition for both the care taker and the patient to deal with the condition of incontinence. The care taker not only has to take care of the individual for the normal activities of the day but also need to change and wash the clothes which are spoiled by involuntary leakage of urine or feces. Every time a patient leaks a flow of urine into the clothes or bed sheets a care taker has to follow the process again. It becomes much difficult when the suffering person is a loved one.
The bowel incontinence is a result of weak bowel control and urinary incontinence is a result of weak urinary bladder or supporting muscles. A weak neurological system can also result in both bowel and urinary incontinence. The severity of the condition always depends on the cause of the incontinence. However you can easily get aware of the kind of incontinence you are facing. The incontinence can be classified into urge incontinence, stress incontinence and overflow incontinence. The Urge incontinence is a condition where the suffering person has an overactive bladder and one feels an urgent need to go to the washroom and in case not able to reach in time results in urine leakage. The Stress incontinence is also an incontinence situation when an individual experiences a rise in abdominal pressure as it is when you laugh, sneeze, or cough. A certainly low amount of urine leaks as soon as one experiences such abdominal pressure. The overflow incontinence is a situation where one is not able to empty his bladder appropriately and one always has the feeling of full bladder. Thus one might experience leakage when the bladder is already full and urine dribbles out. Such a situation is more common to men as compared with women.
The incontinence is as such not a disease and rather symptom of some other disease or condition with the body. The treatment of the incontinence proceeds depending on the diagnosis of the disease. However the incontinence can be managed with the use of incontinence management products available in the market. These products manage the urinary incontinence by absorbing the leak. The popular incontinence product is adult diaper and mattress protectors. The diaper absorbs the urine leakage preventing the clothes from getting spoiled. The mattress protector on the other hand prevents the mattress from getting spoiled. Thus providing a sigh of relief for the care taker and reduces a large amount of work.