Incontinence problems:
- Frequency - needing to pass urine more often
- Urgency– feeling a sudden and uncontrollable urge to pass urine
- Nocturnal incontinence – wetting the bed while asleep
- Functional incontinence –the physical effects of a stroke such as mobility or difficulty in unfastening clothes in time to use the toilet
Different types of incontinence
- Urge Incontinence – is the most commonly occurring type of incontinence following stroke. Patients often describe a sudden, intense and urgent need to pass urine
- Overflow incontinence - where the bladder leaks due to being too full
- Stress incontinence - leakage of urine on effort or exertion, or on sneezing and coughing
- Urinary Retention/incomplete bladder emptying – acute no urine is passed, incomplete – more than 100mls of urine remain in the bladder
