Urinary Retention

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Urinary Retention

• The bladder is a balloon shaped hollow muscle.
   It is designed to stretch as it fills up and
  contract as it empties.  The bladder muscle can
  become so weak that it is unable to contract
  strongly enough to empty. Damage to the nervous
  system can also affect the bladders ability to
  contract e.g Parkinsons disease, Multiple
  Sclerosis and Alzheimers disease.

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Urinary retention is a side effect of the bladder
not emptying properly. This is also known as
having residual urine.

• Other causes could be insufficient urine in the
  bladder to enable urination caused by going to
  the toilet too frequently as a side effect of an
  over active bladder or in an attempt to control
  incontinence. Or a learned voiding dysfunction
  for example, a fear to use the toilet or to use
  toilets outside the home.

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Tests that your doctor or healthcare professional
may recommend that you have done

• If you have residual urine then it is important
  that a way is found to empty the bladder. Often
  this will mean using a catheter a catheter is a
  thin, flexible plastic tube that is passed into
  the bladder through the urethra so that the urine
  will drain away.

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Indwelling catheter

• In certain cases the catheter will be left in
  place so that the urine can be constantly drained
  into a collection bag which is worn on the leg.
  There are two kinds of indwelling catheter
  urethral and suprapubic. A urethral catheter is
  inserted into the bladder through the urethra and
  a suprapubic catheter is inserted into the
  bladder through a hole in the abdomen, a few
  inches below the tummy button.

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Best Treatment of Frequent or urgent urination
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