Anticholinergics: anticholinergics relax the bladder muscles to prevent the spasms. By stopping the spasms, it also stops the unusual urgency and frequency of urination. They affect gastrointestinal, kidney and liver function. If the patient is pregnant or nursing, caution in using this class of drugs is advised. Persons who should not take anticholinergics include those [...] Read more »
Prescription Medications for Incontinence: Solifenacin (Versicare) – an anticholinergic drug
Anticholinergics: anticholinergic drugs relax the bladder muscles to prevent the spasms. By stopping the spasms, it also stops the unusual urgency and frequency of urination. Since anticholinergics can have a negative impact on gastrointestinal, kidney and liver function, caution is advised. Solifenacin is reportedly not to be given to persons with narrow-angle glaucoma, or women [...] Read more »
Medications for Incontinence: Oxybutynin (Ditropan)(an anticholinergic drug)
Anticholinergics: anticholinergics relax the bladder muscles to prevent the spasms. By stopping the spasms, it also stops the unusual urgency and frequency of urination. They affect gastrointestinal, kidney and liver function. If the patient is pregnant or nursing, caution in using this class of drugs is advised. Persons who should not take anticholinergics include those [...] Read more »
Prescription Medications for Incontinence: Trospium (Sanctura) – An Anticholinergic Drug
Anticholinergics: anticholinergics relax the bladder muscles to prevent the spasms. By stopping the spasms, it also stops the unusual urgency and frequency of urination. They affect gastrointestinal, kidney and liver function. If the patient is pregnant or nursing, caution in using this class of drugs is advised. Persons who should not take anticholinergics include those [...] Read more »
Drugs For Incontinence: An Overview
Most prescription medications for incontinence are for an overactive bladder, which means spasms of the muscles that surrounding the bladder, resulting in an urgent need to urinate. A study published in 2008 in the British Journal of Urology reported that more than seventy five percent (75%) of patients who have an overactive bladder finds that [...] Read more »
Vitamin D Levels and Urinary Incontinence
Higher vitamin D levels are linked to a lower risk for urinary incontinence, according to the results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey. The study was comprised of 1,881 women older than 20 years. The results of the survey were published in the April 2010 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Vitamin D deficiency [...] Read more »
Topical Gel for Treatment of Overactive Bladder
The FDA approved the use of oxybutynin chloride 10% gel for the treatment of overactive bladder. Overactive bladder is usually experienced as a sudden, uncomfortable need to urinate with or without urine leakage. People who suffer from overactive bladder usually have to urinate frequently and wake up more than once a night to urinate. The [...] Read more »