Category: bladder

Stressed About Incontinence? Management and Treatment Tips for a Common, Sometimes Embarrassing Ailment

It’s been said that everyone enjoys a good laugh, but for a large percentage of people, those chuckles are accompanied by urine leakage. Yes, we’re talking about urinary incontinence—a health taboo that really needs to be erased for good—because-guess what? It’s common! According to the Urology Care Foundation, up to one-third of adults in the United…


Cranberry Juice Can Prevent Recurrent UTIs, but Only for Some People

Many of us know cranberries as a tasty condiment to have with our Christmas turkey, or the juice that accompanies vodka in a cosmopolitan cocktail. You might have also heard cranberries prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs). While this is often dismissed as a myth, a new review of the evidence shows consuming cranberry juice or…


3 Ways to Reduce Urinary Incontinence

Urinary incontinence (also known as involuntary urination, or urinary leakage) is a common and sometimes embarrassing problem that increases in frequency as we age and with organ function deterioration. According to a 2019 review of research published in the periodical Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, approximately 20 million women and 6 million men in the…


Try This Bladder Workout to Get a Handle on Incontinence

The sudden urge to urinate can be debilitating. It can keep you from leaving home and enjoying your life, with the fear of a potential accident always looming. Sometimes an overactive bladder is called urge incontinence, creating the urge to go when your bladder isn’t full. It might be possible to use a bladder workout…