Have you ever come across a patient who described to you that he urinated himself without his own acknowledgment at the moment and eventually it was a very embarrassing situation for him? This condition is urinary incontinence that affects many people across the globe but they choose to suffer in silence as they think it is not treatable and hence afraid to come out of the closet. Regarding this matter, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has passed guidelines to give care to such people. This article provides the synopsis of the guidelines.
Urinary incontinence is an unintentional passing of urine when the person does not intend to. It is in simple words the inability to hold the urine in bladder because the voluntary control of urinary sphincter is either weakened or completely lost. Basically the urinary tract comprises urinary bladder and urethra whose…
