See a health care professional if you have symptoms of a bladder problem, such as trouble urinating, a loss of bladder control, waking to use the bathroom, pelvic pain, or leaking urine. Bladder problems can affect your quality of life and cause other health problems.
The most common symptoms of a bladder injury are visible blood in the urine, difficulty in urinating, and pain and distention (swelling) in the pelvis and lower abdomen or during urination.
Common bladder problems include urinary tract infections, urinary incontinence, and urinary retention. Some signs of a bladder problem may include: Inability to hold urine or leaking urine. Needing to urinate more frequently or urgently.
A health care provider diagnoses bladder injury by placing a tube ("catheter") into the bladder and taking a series of X-rays. X-rays of the urethra may be taken before the catheter is put in, to see if it is damaged.
Urodynamic testing, including electromyography, looks at how well parts of the urinary tract—the bladder, urethra, and sphincters—are storing and releasing urine. Cystoscopy is a procedure that uses a cystoscope—a long, thin instrument—to look inside the urethra and bladder.
Overall, nearly all extraperitoneal bladder injuries heal within 3 weeks. However, if surgery is pursued for other indications, extraperitoneal bladder injuries may be repaired surgically in the same setting if the patient is stable.
This condition can occur at any age, but it is more common in women over the age of 50. There are four types of urinary incontinence: urgency, stress, functional and overflow incontinence.
A bladder scan should be considered for use with patients exhibiting acute or chronic urinary dysfunction. A bladder scan should not be used if the patient has open skin or a wound in the suprapubic region, or if the patient is pregnant. A bladder scan should not be used in the presence of flammable anesthetics.
Interstitial Cystitis (IC) or Bladder Pain Syndrome (BPS) or IC/BPS is an issue of long-term bladder pain. It may feel like a bladder or urinary tract infection, but it's not. It is a feeling of discomfort and pressure in the bladder area that lasts for six weeks or more with no infection or other clear cause.
Symptoms of cystitis in adults
pain, burning or stinging when you pee. needing to pee more often and urgently than normal. feeling like you need to pee again soon after going to the toilet. urine that's dark, cloudy or strong-smelling.
Bladder infections can lead to inflammation of the bladder (cystitis). Symptoms include pain and burning with urination, increased frequency of urination and sometimes abdominal pain. The inflammation usually improves after a course of antibiotics.
People with severe bladder pain syndrome may urinate as often as 40 times a day, including during the night. Pain, pressure, or tenderness in the bladder, urethra, vulva, vagina, or rectum. Pain in the muscles of the pelvic floor, lower abdomen, and lower back. Pain that may get worse during your menstrual period.
Damage to the tiny blood vessels in the kidney may happen if the bladder becomes too full and urine backs up into the kidneys. This causes extra pressure and may lead to blood in the urine. Infection of the bladder, ureters, or kidneys often results from urine that is held too long before it's passed out of the body.
Some of the possible complications of injury of the bladder and urethra are: Bleeding, shock. Blockage to the flow of urine. This causes the urine to back up and injure one or both kidneys.
Things that sometimes irritate the bladder, such as hygiene products, spermicide jelly or long-term catheter use, can also lead to cystitis. Cystitis can also happen as a complication of another illness. The usual treatment for cystitis caused by bacteria is to take antibiotic medication.
These include: damage to the bladder lining, which may mean pee can irritate the bladder and surrounding nerves. a problem with the pelvic floor muscles used to control peeing. your immune system causing an inflammatory reaction.
Bladder cancer is perhaps the most obvious cancer to find in urine, but evidence suggests that remnants of other cancers – like kidney, prostate and cervical cancer – can also get into pee.