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AGING: DON’T GET EMBARASSED
As the pressure built and pain spread rapidly through her pelvic region, Zona Bailey, 74, ran as fast as she could to the restroom door, so far away. If only she could get inside in time.
But she was too late. Embarrassed and feeling betrayed by her own body, she wondered: Had anyone seen her?
"It would happen when I went grocery shopping," Mrs. Bailey recalls. "It's a huge store, and if I was at the other end, far from the restroom, I'd be leaking before I got there. It was a nightmare."
A retired public-health nurse from Muskegon, Michigan, Mrs. Bailey was one of the approximately 10 million American men and women with urinary incontinence - the inability to control their urinary stream. Cost of treatment is estimated at 10 billion dollars yearly.
Statistics show that 85 percent of patients with urinary incontinence are women and that, on average, a woman will wait a year before telling anyone, much less a doctor, of the problem.
I am happy to report that doctors now can cure or relieve up to 90 percent of all men and women affected by urinary incontinence. Treatments include medications to ease the condition and exercises to strengthen the bladder muscles. Surgery is a last resort.
Mrs. Bailey endured her incontinence for 15 years before seeking treatment. She regrets the wait but is overjoyed by the results. "I used to have to go to the bathroom every 10 to 15 minutes," she says. "It was becoming a way of life." Her problem was a "dropped bladder," which could not empty properly and allowed bacteria to thrive in the fluid it retained. As a result, she suffered from many infections.
Finally, in 1994, Mrs. Bailey visited an urologist, who corrected the bladder's position. Her ordeal ended. "Now," she says, "I can have 4 to 5 hours between bathroom trips, and at night I never have to get up. It is wonderful!"
Dr. Victor Nitti, a specialist in neurourology and female urology at New York University, is enthusiastic about the effectiveness of treatments to help patients control urination. He said that many older patients wrongly accept incontinence as an inevitable condition of aging.
Dr. Nitti objects to that attitude, asserting, "Ads on TV for adult diapers support the idea that it's OK simply to wear a diaper. That's ridiculous. Most patients can be significantly improved with treatment. Rarely do we find a patient who cannot be helped." This is not, of course, to discount the usefulness of such products.
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