Let’s Talk About Incontinence

Let’s Talk About Incontinence | AD

It’s World Continence Week so the perfect time to talk about urinary incontinence. Continence challenges can impact people of different ages in all areas of life. It affects millions of people and is particularly common during pregnancy and after having a vaginal birth as these experiences can weaken the muscles that control the flow of urine from your bladder. Lots of women struggle for years after giving birth to their children, worrying about leaks every time they sneeze, laugh, or can’t get to a toilet quickly enough.

Ways to Improve Incontinence

There are many things that you can do to help improve this condition such as pelvic floor exercises. These are especially important during and after pregnancy, but everyone may benefit from strengthening their pelvic floor muscles like this. I tried to remember doing daily pelvic floor exercises during my three pregnancies and worked on them after each birth too, to strengthen my pelvic floor to prevent bladder issues. Still, I can tell that my pelvic floor muscles are not as strong as they used to be.

Other ways to improve your symptoms are to make diet and lifestyle changes. You can also try bladder training where you gradually wait longer between needing to urinate and actually going for a wee. The right incontinence products will catch any leaks and help you feel protected and confident as you get on with your daily life.

Incontinence Products to Make Life Easier and More Comfortable

Complete Care Shop, CCS, is a supplier of daily living aids. Since 2007, CCS has been supplying their customers with the daily living aids and mobility equipment that they need to live their lives more independently for longer. CCS has over 5,000 products designed to make daily life a bit easier and also offer occupational therapist advice services, home living consultation services, and specialist wheelchair home assessments.

Incontinence Poverty is a Real Problem

Though there are many excellent urinary incontinence products on the market, incontinence poverty is a real issue that many people face, just like period poverty. The cost-of-living crisis is seriously affecting household finances across the United Kingdom and people are forced to make spending cuts in different areas of their lives to afford the basic essentials such as heating and electricity.

The average cost of a year’s supply of incontinence products is £1800 which is a big expense. Complete Care Shop wants to raise awareness of incontinence poverty and discourage people from turning to inappropriate products or solutions due to the cost. CCS and their partners have secured £150,000 worth of incontinence products to help anyone who is living with or caring for someone with incontinence and are struggling to afford the incontinence products they need.

People who are in need of incontinence aids can claim these by getting in touch with the CCS customer care team via phone or via a form on the website. The products are completely free and limited to two items per household to ensure a fair distribution.

Conclusion

Living with incontinence is already challenging and everyone who needs incontinence products should be able to access them without worrying about the cost. We need to talk more about incontinence and highlight how incontinence poverty has become a big problem across the country.

Collaboration. This post is in conjunction with Complete Care Shop, but all thoughts and opinions are my own.