Botox – a potential for therapy of weak bladders in women

Botox could help people with weak bladders – a common condition called urinary incontinence.

The study, published in the journal European Urology, was carried out at eight uro-gynecology centers in the UK from 2006 to 2009 by researchers from the University of Leicester. A total of 240 women were split into two groups, with 122 women given Botox and 118 receiving a dummy treatment. Researchers found improvements across a range of symptoms, including wetting oneself and feeling a need to rush to the toilet, and how often the women ‘leaked’ urine.

Injecting the toxin directly into the wall of the organ was found to improve symptoms among women with incontinence. On average, the number of times they suffered an episode of incontinence fell from six times a day to under once a day. The number of times they felt an urgent need to go to the toilet also fell, from around eight times a day to three times a day. About four out of 10 women treated with the powerful neurotoxin became continent again after six weeks and a third were still continent six months after treatment. The effects started to wear off after about six months.

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Source:  by Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD at http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120313/Botox-a-potential-for-therapy-of-weak-bladders-in-women.aspx