Light Bladder Leakage, or LBL, affects thousands of Australian women, of all ages. Regaining your confidence and control is easy, with a few simple exercises, and the help of POISE®.

TIPS

Keep your Fluids Up

It’s important to drink at least 1.5 litres of water daily to flush your kidneys and keep your bladder trained. While you may think that not drinking water will help, it can actually make the condition worse, by concentrating urine, which can irritate the bladder and cause infection or dehydration. Watch What You’re Eating and Drinking Things like caffeine, nicotine, alcohol and juices with high acid content (like orange juice) can irritate your bladder and play a big part in urine leakage.

Maintain your weight

Gaining weight impacts on your bladder and the supporting muscles of the pelvic floor. Be sure to follow a well-balanced diet and get regular exercise, so you maintain a healthy weight.

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Practice your Pelvic Floor Exercises

Your pelvic floor is the large hammock of muscles across the bottom of your pelvis. Making these muscles fit and firm will help you regain control. You can identify these muscles easily, by simply starting and stopping your urine stream. If you are able to stop your urine stream, then you are using your pelvic floor muscles.

Pelvic floor exercises are so easy to do, and can be discreetly done anywhere, at any time. No one ever need know you’re doing them. They are a simple, yet effective way of regaining control.

Helpful Hints

While doing your exercises:

• - Breathe deeply with each exercise
• - Remember to squeeze in and lift up, do not push down
• - Do not tighten your stomach, bottom or thigh muscles
• - Gradually increase exercise intensity. Eventually, you will be able to squeeze with enough intensity to strengthen your pelvic floor and improve LBL

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