What Are the Causes of Adult Incontinence?

Urinary incontinence in the middle-aged and elderly is divided into temporary urinary incontinence and long-term urinary incontinence. The main reason for its occurrence is urinary tract infection and disease. The affected people are mainly male middle-aged and elderly.

Elderly incontinence

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Urinary incontinence in the middle-aged and elderly is divided into temporary urinary incontinence and long-term urinary incontinence. The main reason for its occurrence is urinary tract infection and disease. The affected people are mainly male middle-aged and elderly.

Chinese name

Elderly incontinence

Cause

Middle-aged and elderly people cause secondary

Urine control in normal men relies on the following two parts of the urethra:

Proximal urethra

1. Intermittent urination training. That is, during each urination process, the patient controls the pause of urination for 3-5 seconds and then continues to discharge urine;

2. Anal lift training. Patient standing, sitting or

Self-exercise is an easy and effective treatment. The method is: during a quiet rest (either sitting or lying), focus on your thoughts, and consciously shrink and relax the muscles of the anus and perineum once and for all, just like when you defecate, you have a contraction after discharging the stool Like that. When the muscles contract, you will clearly feel that the anus is lifted upwards, and when you relax, you will feel that the anus returns to its original relaxed state. Rhythmic repetitive contractions and relaxations allow exercise of the pelvic floor muscles. You can train for 3 to 5 minutes at a time. There is no limit to the number of daily exercises. As long as you persist, stress urinary incontinence can be significantly reduced or even completely disappeared.

Recipes for urinary incontinence in the elderly: take 2 fresh eggs, 20 grams of Chinese wolfberry, and 4 jujubes. Put them into a casserole and cook with water. After the eggs are cooked, remove the shells, put the eggs back and cook for a while, eat the eggs and drink the soup. Once every other day, 3 consecutive servings will be effective.

Note: This prescription is applicable to urinary incontinence in elderly kidney deficiency.

Targeted care

Analyze the causes and problems of urinary incontinence with patients and their families to obtain their consensus. For urinary incontinence caused by decreased self-care ability or communication difficulties, a time plan to assist urination should be formulated to help patients urinate in time. For incontinence that is completely uncontrollable, a more thorough plan should be made, such as senile dementia. Analyze the cause of urinary incontinence according to the nursing records, and choose the appropriate method, such as indwelling catheterization, induced urination, and so on. For bedridden patients, efforts should be made to relieve the patient's inferiority complex and relieve the patient's mental stress; pay attention to shielding the exposed parts, and then wash them in time to keep the perineum clean and dry to prevent infection. For urinary incontinence caused by mental factors, time, and environmental factors, we should understand the cause in detail, do a good job of patient and meticulous explanations, eliminate the unease and fear of patients, properly arrange their surroundings, and give the maximum mentality. Comfort, their incontinence may disappear.

Focus on psychological care

Urinary incontinence brings great pain and inconvenience to patients, which seriously affects patients' quality of life. In particular, the elderly are slow to move, their mobility is weakened, their self-esteem is vulnerable after illness, and they are prone to distrust and stubbornness towards others. In severe cases, they have low mood, anxiety, and loneliness [7]. In this regard, the nursing staff must first be patient, kind, and tiresome, and use good nursing language and behavior to arouse patients' confidence in recovery. To teach patients how to use the toilet, adjust the environment to facilitate the patient's activities, such as: the toilet should be placed in a convenient place for patients. To help patients who have difficulty wearing undressing clothes, try to wear simple and easy-to-wear clothes. Catheterization should be performed carefully, and sterile intermittent catheterization should be used if necessary. Avoid indwelling catheterization as much as possible. Patients should be given appropriate encouragement whenever they make small improvements.