Whether you have a cold or just a tickle in your throat, if you’ve experienced incontinence when coughing, you’re not alone. This may also happen when you sneeze or even laugh. This involuntary leakage of urine is known as stress incontinence and it’s not something to be embarrassed about. Keep reading to learn more about why this happens and what you can do about it.
1 in 3 women over 35 deal with stress incontinence, which means you may experience leaking or incontinence when coughing, sneezing, laughing, or running. The culprit is your pelvic floor. The pelvic floor muscles support your bladder and urethra and when you have a weak pelvic floor, stress from things like coughing can cause a small amount of urine to leak.
Stress incontinence is the most common type of incontinence. Many women experience incontinence following childbirth and delivery, but it can also be caused by changing hormone levels in menopause, obesity, and chronic coughs.
The good news is that stress incontinence is treatable! The first step for many to do Kegel exercises regularly. You can perform Kegels manually or you can stimulate the pelvic floor muscles with a device like Elitone. Seeing a pelvic floor therapist who can provide personalized exercises to help strengthen your pelvic muscles can also help to improve stress incontinence. Another technique to help with incontinence when coughing is do a Kegel just as you cough. This may take some practice but it can help to stop leaking.
If you’re ready to live a life free of unwelcome leaks, it’s time see if Elitone is a good fit for you. This FDA-cleared device is used externally for just 20 minutes a day. Using small electrical pulses to target your pelvic floor, one session with Elitone is the equivalent of 100 Kegels. Stress incontinence is a treatable condition and Elitone can help.
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