Poise^® understands that the light urinary leakage issues that
affect women in one stage of their life, will be different
from women in another stage.
That’s why Poise^® provides information specifically for the bladder
control loss that is affecting you, as well as nutrition
and lifestyle tips to help you manage your bladder control more effectively.

Female Bladder

Women’s waterworks are more internalised than the male anatomy. While this has benefits, it also means the female bladder muscle structure is also internalised. This means light urinary leakage (incontinence) can result from the other influences on the female body – Pregnancy, childbirth, illness and infections, and menopause.

Women’s bladder control loss most often occurs because the pelvic floor muscles, which are under your bladder and around your urethra, have been weakened and are now not strong enough to prevent light urine escaping.

To understand this information, it helps to familiarise yourself with the female anatomy:

• The kidneys filter light urine from the blood and this is stored in your bladder.
• The bladder is a hollow muscular organ that holds the light urine until you decide that you feel full (hopefully at about 300 ml).
• When you reach the toilet, you relax your pelvic floor muscles (the muscles under the bladder) and your brain gives permission for the bladder muscle to contract, squeezing the light urine out through the urethra – the tube from the bladder to the outside.
• When the bladder muscle contracts, the muscle that holds the urethra shut during storage (called the sphincter), relaxes to allow the light urine to pass through.
• The whole system is supported by the muscles of the pelvic floor that run from the tip of your tailbone through to the pubic bone (the front bone of your pelvis).
• Women who experience bladder leakage have weakened or damaged pelvic floor muscles, which under strain of other physical activity (exercising, coughing, and lifting) cannot hold back the light urine.

Other women’s pelvic floor muscles may be weakened or damaged in a way that may not be able to sense when their bladders are full, or fully be able to control the sphincter muscle around the urethra. This leads to a difficulty in controlling urination and can come at regular intervals, or in a sudden gush