January 28 - February 4, 2000
Getting Control of Incontinence
Gotta go all the time? Don't always make it? Is this normal?
UAB researchers say the average person who drinks the recommended six to eight glasses of water a day should go to the restroom about every two to four hours and get up no more than one or two times a night.
It is not normal to leak urine at all, says Patricia S. Goode, M.D., an internist, geriatrician and medical director of UAB's Continence Program. Urine leakage and bladder-control problems are very common, affecting as many as 30 percent of women over the age of 40 and 10-to-15 percent of men over 65. But these conditions are not normal and should be treated.
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