These comments are made for the purpose of discussion and should NOT be used as recommendations for or against therapies or other treatments. An individual patient is always advised to consult their own physician.
Vitamin Therapy
Question:are there any vitamins that help deal with female urinary incontinence?
Answer:Female urinary incontinence has a variety of causes. However, vitamin deficiency is not usually thought to be one of them. Consequently, taking vitamins wouldn’t he expected to help the problem. The usual remedies that work are Kegel exercises and topical estrogren cream(in post menopausal women). Kegel exercises were initially described by an Army doctor in France after WW II. He was treating French prostitutes and found that they employed pelvic strengthening exercises to enhance their professional ability. The muscle that is responsible for urinary continence is shaped in a figure eight with one loop around the bladder sphincter and vagina and the other loop around the rectum. Strengthening this muscle will usually dramatically reduce urinary incontinence. This is done by tightening the muscle and pulling it into ones body-holding this for as long as possible-relaxing the muscle and repeating this over and over. This is the easiest and best way to decrease urinary incontinence-it has the added side effect of enhancing your vaginal strength.
