Signs and symptoms of renal calculi - 🔰CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔• Renal Colic (+ CVA Tenderness), intense flank pain
• Severe pain (+/- Nausea and Vomiting)
• Hematuria, cloudy urine, painful urination
• Urinary retention
incontinence - 🔰CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔inability to control
bladder and/or bowels
Types of incontinence - 🔰CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Stress
Loss of small amounts of urine from increased abdominal pressure
without bladder muscle contraction with laughing, sneezing, or
lifting.
2. Urge
Inability to stop urine flow long enough to reach the bathroom due
to an overactive detrusor muscle with increased bladder pressure,
3. Overflow
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,Urinary retention from bladder over-distention and frequent loss of
small amounts of urine due to obstruction of the urinary outlet or
an impaired detrusor muscle.
4. Reflex
Involuntary loss of a moderate amount of urine usually without
warning due to hyperrflexia, of the detrusor muscle, usually from
spinal cord dysfunction.
5. Functional
Loss of urine due to factors that interfere with responding to the
need to urinate such as cognitive, mobility, and environmental
barriers.
6. Total
Unpredictable, involuntary loss of urine that generally does not
respond to treatment,
Tests to diagnose incontinence - 🔰CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Urinalysis, Bladder Diary, Post void residual measurement,
cystoscopy, Ultrasound
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, Treatment for incontinence - 🔰CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-
bladder training
-scheduled toileting
-fluid/diet management
-pelvic muscle exercises (stress and urge)
-pharmacological interventions
-surgery
Patient education for incontinence - 🔰CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Urinate only every 3 to 6 hours to "re-train" your bladder.
Know that consumption of diuretics, antidepressants,
antihistamines, and cough-cold preparations exacerbates urinary
incontinence.
Eat fruits, vegetables, and whole grains daily to prevent
constipation.
Stop smoking (nicotine irritates the bladder).
Patient education for urolethiasis - 🔰CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Limit the amount of salt (sodium) in your diet. Eat a balanced
diet that is not too high in protein. Limit foods that are high in a
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