Urinary incontinence is the most common urological problem in women. As per apcab study of The year 2001, it affects 33% of the women over the age of 30 years in Pakistan. But only 1-3% of these of women seek medical advice, because many of these women with incontinence feel
embarrassed to discuss this problem with their doctors or even with their family members.

Incontinence can affect every sphere of a woman’s life, be it social, occupational, domestic, marital or even spiritual life. Women with severe incontinence do not like to attend any social gatherings because they live in a constant fear of wetting their clothes in public.

Working women with this problem really find it difficult to cope up and some of them may even quit their jobs.

Not only working women, even housewives find it difficult to do their routine activity as any act of bending or lifting any object from the floor can cause urine leak.

When these women offers prayer the poor women start leaking urine as soon as they kneel down to offer prayers and in it it is not acceptable to offer prayers when the clothes are soaked in urine. Finally these women go into depression, suffer in silence.

The most common type is stress urinary incontinence which means leakage of urine during coughing, sneezing, laughing or lifting objects. Many of these women relief with Kegel’s exercises.

Some women may have urge incontinence which is most often cured with drugs.

Early medical advice and treatment will go a long way in bringing a smile back on these women who otherwise may suffer in silence.