How is urge incontinence treated?
Ask your caregiver for more information about the following treatments for urge UI: • Bladder training: The goal of bladder training is to help improve your bladder control. Bladder training includes urinating at certain times and doing pelvic floor muscle exercises. You may also learn to use relaxation and distraction to take your mind off the need to urinate. This may help decrease the urge to urinate, while increasing the amount of urine your bladder can hold. • Medicines: • Antibiotic medicine: Antibiotic medicine helps treat an infection caused by germs called bacteria. You may need antibiotic medicine if a urinary tract infection caused your urge UI. • Anticholinergic medicine: Anticholinergic medicine may be given to decrease how often your bladder contracts and causes you to leak urine. • Hormone therapy: Women who have reached menopause may need to take the hormone estrogen. Estrogen may help improve bladder control. • Sacral nerve stimulation: Sacral nerve stimulation is done
