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WHAT IS INCONTINENCE?

Urinary incontinence causes bladder loss of control and urinary leaks. Happens to mostly older people but can occur to people of all ages, and for different reasons. If it affects your daily life, we advise visiting your doctor. Modifications in your lifestyle can reduce discomfort or urinary incontinence.

WHAT MAY BE BEHIND IT?

Temporary urinary incontinence is a common thing, sometimes temporary urinary incontinence may be caused by your daily nutritional habits. A doctor visit can help you determine what caused your incontinence Some beverages, foods, and medicines can act as diuretics that stimulate your bladder and increase your urine volume.

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This consists of:

  • Usage Alcohol
  • Caffeine
  • Carbonated drinks and sparkling water
  • Artificial sweeteners
  • Chocolate
  • Chili peppers
  • Foods that are high in spice, sugar or acid, especially citrus fruits
  • Heart and blood pressure medications, sedatives, and muscle relaxants
  • Large doses of vitamin C

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TYPES:

If you ever experience incontinence, it’s always advised to see your doctor. They are the only people that can perform tests to diagnose your bladder condition and determine whether you may have neurogenic bladder dysfunction. Several examples of urinary incontinence:

  • Stress incontinence: Coughing, sneezing, coughing, or exercising or lifting heavy weights may exert pressure on your bladder. Urine leakage can happen when pressure on your bladder. It can be also caused by Pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, pelvic radiation, and surgical trauma.
  • Urge incontinence: Sudden intense urge to urinate, followed by an unintentional loss of urine. It can be also caused by Pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, pelvic radiation, and surgical trauma.
  • Overflow incontinence: Sometimes bladder won’t empty completely which will result in frequent or constant dribbling of urine
  • Functional incontinence: A physical or mental impairment keeps you from making it to the toilet in time. For example, you may not be able to unbutton your pants quickly enough if you have severe arthritis.
  • Mixed incontinence: It is when more than one form of urinary incontinence is experienced.

FACTS:
  • Twice more women than men are affected by urinary incontinence
  • It doesn’t only affects older people
  • Incontinence isn’t a disease by itself, it’s a symptom of another health problem

 

Long Term Care, Nursing Homes

Most Long Term Care and Nursing Home clients require assistance to maintain continence or manage incontinence – they usually use adult diapers, indwelling, and condom catheters.  Main related problems:  ·

  • High demand for caregiver/nurse hours;
  • Higher total costs of the necessary treatments for complications such as urinary tract infection, skin breakdown.
  • Increment of the environmental hazards and impacts throughout their respective life cycle, from manufacturing to disposal.
  • Decrease of patients’ quality of life because of the inadequate management of the urinary incontinence: social isolation, loneliness, low expectations about continence care, fear of embarrassing situations like leak and smell, lack of self-confidence and dignity.
  • Promotion of functional losses because of all incontinence urinary management complications

 

How ActivGo® is helping:
  • Reducing the length of hospital stay and delayed entry into long term care
  • Savings in nursing time
  • Decreasing the UI incidence.
  • Increase the patient’s functional independence
  • A large urine collection bag facilitates drainage and allows the user to increase fluid intake
  • Reduce drastically the cost of disposable

 

Acute Care / Hospitals challenges:
  • High prevalence of urinary infection, accounting for more than 30% of the infections reported by acute care hospitals.  Of these infections, 80% are attributable to an indwelling urethral catheter.
  • In many cases, catheters are placed for inappropriate indications, and healthcare providers are often unaware that their patients have catheters, leading to prolonged, unnecessary use.
  • The use of disposable diapers for adults and elderly patients at the hospitals is associated also with the high incidence of the UI among their users.
  • Time-consuming to change all the disposable incontinent products.
  • Patients’ dissatisfaction, pain, and discomfort in indwelling catheter insertion and skin damage regarding the use of diapers and external condom catheters.
  • High cost associated with the disposable management

 

 How ActivGo® is helping.
  • Reducing the length of hospital stay and delayed entry into long term care
  • Savings in nursing time
  • Decreasing the UI incidence.
  • Increase the patient’s functional independence
  • A large urine collection bag facilitates drainage and allows the user to increase fluid intake
  • Reduce drastically the cost of disposable
Home Care challenges:
  • Patients dehydration: the patients avoid taking liquids in order to decrease the number of diapers to be used and change and urine bag release
  • Consumption of large numbers of hours by caregivers and nurses in managing urinary incontinence
  • High costs in treating complications from the use of adult diapers, indwelling, or condom catheters that need adhesive.
  • High costs related to the supply of diapers and indwelling or condom catheters that need adhesive.
How ActivGo® is helping:
  • Savings in nursing time
  • Decreasing the UI incidence.
  • Increase the patients’ functional independence.
  • Restore patient self-confidence in daily life activities, and return to an active life.
  • A large urine collection bag facilitates drainage and allows the user to increase fluid intake

 

 

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