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Poise® Ask an Expert gives you the opportunity to submit a question to our panel of qualified continence nurses regarding your bladder weakness issues and worries.
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Does drinking less water help with incontinence?
Hi Robyn, Many people withhold their fluid intake hoping that it will help with their incontinence. In fact, this can often have the opposite ef...
Category: Natural changes
Answered over 2 years ago
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I am doing a lot of running but find regular pads don’t absorb leakage. It is very embarrassing to finish a run looking like I've wet myself. I don’t want to give up running, what would you suggest?
I would suggest that you find the correct type of pad for your bladder weakness, whist implementing and maintaining a healthy bladder program. M...
Category: Mothers
Answered over 2 years ago
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Could a GBS (Group B Strep) Urinary Infection cause incontinence?
Hello Sharleen, Thanks for your enquiry. A Group B Strep Urinary Infection can cause the same symptoms as any other Urinary Tract infections whic...
Category: Mothers
Answered about 1 year ago
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I'm after a nappy type for an elderly incontinenant lady. What is available and do u have a sample? I want this for my mother in law.
Hello Rose, Poise do not manufacture any garment/pant/underwear styled bladder leakage products. Visit the Depend website http://www.depend.co...
Category: Natural changes
Answered about 1 year ago
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My mother has alzheimers and bladder continence especially at night is an problem I am looking for pullups with increased absorbancy can you give me some advise in that area
Dear Brenda, Poise do not manufacture any garment/pant/underwear styled bladder leakage products. Visit the Depend website http://www.depend.c...
Category: Natural changes
Answered about 1 year ago
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I am a young teenager and everytime i go to pee i never can empty my bladder properly and still feel as if i can pee a few MLs or urine but even then i still am not fully empty. I have been to so many doctors and specialists and they cannot find anything
Hello Jennifer, From your description it sounds like you have symptoms of overflow incontinence. This occurs when you continuously leak small tric...
Category: Young women
Answered about 1 year ago
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If I sneeze or cough immediately after emptying my bladder, within seconds of standing up, I still leak. Is my bladder not emptying properly or is this normal? Where is all that wee coming from?
Dear Penny, Based on your description above, it sounds like you have symptoms of overflow incontinence. Overflow Incontinence, is when you continu...
Category: Natural changes
Answered about 1 year ago
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I have small leakage the moment my bladder has any urine in it. When I drink a glass of water I get the urge to urinate approximately 10 minutes after drinking. What is happening to me?
Dear Ingrid, Sounds like you have the symptoms of Urge Incontinence. This usually happens when you suddenly leak urine after feeling an urgent and...
Category: Natural changes
Answered about 1 year ago
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Since I can remember I have suffered from bladder weakness. When I was only six I had to be taken into a toilet in every shop we passed. I am nearly 18 and I still suffer from bladder weakness. It is not constant, sometimes I have it but sometimes I am co
Hello Rebecca, Although you may be a bit scared to visit the Dr, it sounds like you may need to go to pay them a visit GP. Visit a GP that you fee...
Category: Young women
Answered 11 months ago
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Because my present supplier of bed incontinence sheets does not have my requirements any more I am looking for another supplier who can supply these in the size of 60cm x 90cm. Hope you can help with this problem. Thanking you.
Hello Kathy, Thanks for your enquiry. The Depend range have a range of incontinence bed sheets and protectors. Visit the depend professional webs...
Category: Natural changes
Answered about 1 year ago
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do you make poise pads for bowel incontenence
Poise pads are specifically designed for light bladder leakage rather than bowel incontinence. For products suitable for bowel incontinence, you ma...
Category: Natural changes
Answered about 1 year ago
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If I reduce the amount of water I drink, will that help me not have any wetting accidents?
Not at all. The less fluid that you drink, directly affects the strength the bladder muscle, lessening it. This in turn, results in increasing...
Category: Mothers
Answered over 3 years ago
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Why is there no availability of male incontinence products in Poise's 'free sample' campaign?
Hello Mike, Thanks for your enquiry. When you choose male products on the Poise sample page, there is a link that will take you directly to the ...
Category: Natural changes
Answered 11 months ago
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I have taken Zoloft 150mg for the past 15 years and suffer urge incontinence. Could the medication have any effect on my problem?
Urinary Incontinence is not a common side effect of Zoloft and it appears to me that as you have been taking it for quite a while but it hasn’t see...
Category: Mothers
Answered over 2 years ago