Urinary problems in elderly
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The Brazilian as well as the world population has seen an increase of their longevity, and medicine has kept up with process and evolved, showing solutions to discomfort and to increase our well-being. The best way to avoid this problem is to contact your doctor and talk to him/her openly so they can propose solutions to improve your quality of life.
From the age of 40, men and women start to have urinary problems more frequently.
Urinary problems in men
In men, the prostate starts to grow in size which in some cases can lead to the obstruction of the urine channel because the prostate surrounds this channel, called the urethra. In this case, a man starts to urinate more frequently and the stream becomes weaker and thinner, miction takes longer to start and it is longer, causing him to have to wake during the night to urinate, with the possibility of involuntary loss of urine. These problems can be solved by prostate treatment, with medicine and eventually surgery.
Remember that it is important that men after the age of 45 should see the doctor annually to check if there is a benign growth of the prostate or a prostate cancer, this is done through a blood test called prostate specific antigen (PSA) and rectal touch, which is fast and painless. We remind you that prostate cancer is the most frequent malign tumour with the potential to cause death in men in Brazil.
Men in the third age can also have difficulties urinating, loss of urine or even, feel the necessity more frequently even without having prostate problems.
Recent research show that the human bladder suffers an aging process like every other organ, in such a way that the changes in the substitution of the muscles of the bladders for fibres which do not contract, besides other series of changes, may be responsible for the urinary symptoms in men.
Other diseases such as, diabetes, parkinson's, alcoholism and others, may lead to alteration in the functioning of the bladder.
Urinary problems in Women
Women are not free either from presenting urinary disturbances, due to the weight of the viscera themselves, multiple childbirths and the drop of feminine hormones due to the menopause, which may lead to stress urinary loss.
Coughing, sneezing and physical exercise may lead to urinary loss. This problem is popularly known as fallen bladder; however, this kind of situation may happen even if the bladder is not dislocated. Modern treatment is also available for this situation through minimally invasive surgery done in hospital and under local anaesthesia.
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