To combat possible overflow incontinence, you should go to your doctor as soon as you experience any of the symptoms listed above.
From there, they will most likely take a scan of your bladder to confirm whether you have a urine retention issue. Your doctor might recommend the following techniques to battle overflow incontinence:
• Adopting the proper position on the toilet with your feet adequately supported
• Intermittent clean self-catheterisation (ICSC) – for ongoing treatment, ICSC is a clean and aseptic (not sterile) method of emptying the bladder. Another treatment option is indwelling catheterisation. This method is not usually considered as a permanent solution, because of the risk of infection due to the daily rate of bacteriuria, (bacteria in urine) after 10 days with indwelling catheter the urinary bladder is colonised with bacteria.
• Suprapubic catheterisation – in this method a catheter is inserted in the bladder through the belly.
• Prostate surgery – for men with an enlarged prostate gland, surgery of the prostate involves removing the part of the prostate gland which compresses the urethra
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