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A lot of things affect your body’s ability to keep wee in the bladder or to empty the bladder.
Usually if things don’t work the way they should it’s because of you have been ill or you may have been hurt.
It can happen to anyone, kids or grown ups.
- Incontinence is a word that means you wee yourself and you can’t help it.
- Retention means you aren’t able to do a wee even when you need to.
- You might have one of these problems or you might have them both.
For you to be able to do a wee, your bladder and brain need to be able to talk to each other. Without talking to each other the brain doesn’t know that you need a wee, so it can’t tell your bladder to squeeze your wee out. Catheters help you to get your wee out when your bladder and brain are not able to talk to each other.
Sometimes you may get an infection which can make you feel poorly, but your doctor can help and using LoFric catheters should mean this doesn't happen very often.
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