Cannabis as a Treatment for Overactive Bladder and Incontinence
Urinary incontinence is more than just an inconvenience, as the sufferer has to go to the bathroom over and over again due to constant and sudden urges, irrespective of time and place. Unfortunately, these symptoms always accompany social embarrassment and mental anxiety and one has to bear it until the bladder symptoms are completely treated.
We’re not far away from the day that we can treat these symptoms by ourselves; a ray of hope comes from a new study that reported significant treatment benefits from cannabis for urinary incontinence.
Pathophysiology of urinary incontinence
Urinary incontinence is characterized by loss of bladder control as a result of weak bladder muscles and inflammation, which may be due in part damaged nerves that control the bladder functions. In the U.S, more than one in ten elderly individuals, mostly women, suffer with urinary incontinence.
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