Men suffering from urinary incontinence are often too embarrassed to talk about it even with their loved ones. Taking a doctor’s advice may help.
Urinary incontinence and involuntary urine leakage episodes can cause severe embarrassment in a social setting. Most people who suffer from urinary incontinence slowly start giving up on an active social life. They fear that their condition might ruin their clothes and mortify the people they are with. Hence, they stop going out for movies, drinks and parties and prefer to stay at home.
Men are as embarrassed as women with their involuntary urine leakage episodes, to the extent that they do not discuss the matter with anybody. However, talking to a doctor often helps. The condition may be temporary in some cases – for example, for people recovering from surgery or from antibiotic usage. The most common causes of urine leakage among men are:
Mental disorders: A mental illness such as Dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease, or even some damage to the nervous system, might make it difficult for the man to respond to the signals of urine or faeces discharge. In many cases, the man may not even understand these signals and may face urine leakage without even being aware of the same.
Health conditions. Diabetes, prostate cancer and stroke are often responsible for incontinence and urine leakage. Even the medicines prescribed for treating these health conditions may cause incontinence.
Overactive or underactive bladder: Sometimes, the bladder needs to empty itself even before it is completely full. This means that the man may go to the restroom many more times than is usual. In contrast, some people’s bladders are only half emptied when they visit the restroom. Both conditions strain the sphincter muscles surrounding the urethra, weakening them and causing urine leakage.
Weak pelvic floor: A weak pelvic floor is unable to hold the urine in for much longer, thus it seeps out. This normally happens with old age.
Use of diuretics: Ironically, medicines that treat kidney problems may cause incontinence because the person frequently needs to empty their bladder.
Urinary incontinence and involuntary urine leakage episodes can cause severe embarrassment in a social setting. Most people who suffer from urinary incontinence slowly start giving up on an active social life. They fear that their condition might ruin their clothes and mortify the people they are with. Hence, they stop going out for movies, drinks and parties and prefer to stay at home.
Men are as embarrassed as women with their involuntary urine leakage episodes, to the extent that they do not discuss the matter with anybody. However, talking to a doctor often helps. The condition may be temporary in some cases – for example, for people recovering from surgery or from antibiotic usage. The most common causes of urine leakage among men are:
Mental disorders: A mental illness such as Dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease, or even some damage to the nervous system, might make it difficult for the man to respond to the signals of urine or faeces discharge. In many cases, the man may not even understand these signals and may face urine leakage without even being aware of the same.
Health conditions. Diabetes, prostate cancer and stroke are often responsible for incontinence and urine leakage. Even the medicines prescribed for treating these health conditions may cause incontinence.
Overactive or underactive bladder: Sometimes, the bladder needs to empty itself even before it is completely full. This means that the man may go to the restroom many more times than is usual. In contrast, some people’s bladders are only half emptied when they visit the restroom. Both conditions strain the sphincter muscles surrounding the urethra, weakening them and causing urine leakage.
Weak pelvic floor: A weak pelvic floor is unable to hold the urine in for much longer, thus it seeps out. This normally happens with old age.
Use of diuretics: Ironically, medicines that treat kidney problems may cause incontinence because the person frequently needs to empty their bladder.