What can cause 'stress incontinence'?

What can cause 'stress incontinence'?

Jennifer Anger, M.D, M.P.H. (Assistant Professor) gives expert video advice on: What can I do if I can't make it to the bathroom in time to urinate?; What can I do if I lose control of my bladder when I sneeze, cough or laugh?; What can I do if I lose control of my bladder when I lift weights? and more...

Stress incontinence is classically leakage with cough laugh or sneeze. It occurs as a result of a weakening in the urethra. The urethra is the tube that allows urine to flow from the bladder out to the free world or normally in the toilet. Unfortunately for a lot of people, into a pad or into their underwear. So stress incontinence usually is a result of in women, vaginal delivery it can also result from other predisposing factors like aging, family, history, or a family predisposition and coughing from smoking. in addition to aging sometimes there's a thought that it can be in addition to aging maybe having lower estrogen levels can weaken the tissues. Men usually don't have stress incontinence unless they have had a procedure on their prostrate, such as a prostatectomy for cancer or a transurethral resection of the prostrate which is often performed for benign prostate disease So stress incontinence in men is less common than in women.