Nutrition

Your diet has a major impact on your overall health, and this is true for your bladder health as well. You’ve probably heard a lot about foods that can irritate your bladder, such as spicy dishes and chocolate. But what about foods that are actually good for your bladder? In this list, we’ve rounded up eight items that are actually beneficial for your bladder health — and be sure to check out our guide to calming an irritated bladder.

Menopause symptoms like vaginal dryness and hot flashes are par for the menopausal course, but there’s one oft-overlooked symptom that many women don’t see coming — urinary tract infections (UTIs). Due to the same physiological changes that cause the more well-known symptoms, studies show that UTI risk increases with age. In fact, nearly 20 percent of women over 65 experience UTI, compared to just 11 percent of the general population. 

One of the most frustrating things about exercising is that doing something good for your body can sometimes result in soreness, discomfort, and pain afterwards — and sometimes that includes pelvic pain. If you’re wondering why you have pelvic pain after exercising, read on to discover four possible causes.

One of the most irritating side effects of menopause — and one of the most common — is a decreased libido. Many women find themselves navigating a lower sex drive in addition to their other symtpoms, which can impact the relationship they have with their partner and with themselves. Here’s what you need to know about menopause and your libido and getting menopause relief for your sex drive.

Maybe you’ve had back pain for a while and have recently started to develop incontinence, or vice versa. Maybe you started to develop them at about the same time. However the pain started, you want to learn how to manage both your back pain and incontinence. Back pain and incontinence are relatively common conditions, and they can occur at the same time. However, they may not always have the same cause even if they do happen around roughly the same time. Here’s what you need to know about back pain and incontinence:

As if the vaginal dryness wasn’t bad enough, menopause often triggers overwhelming hot flashes. And to make matters worse, they can happen in the middle of the night, waking you up (and keeping you up) when all you’d rather do is sleep. However, you don’t have to let them run your life any longer. Here are our six top tips to get menopause relief from night sweats:

You may have gotten through the pregnancy and gave birth, but the process isn’t necessarily over yet. Many women find themselves experiencing postpartum incontinence, aka non-voluntary urine leakage. Postpartum incontinence is actually a pretty common side effect, and many women experience it in the weeks after giving birth. If you’re dealing with post-pregnancy urine leakage, here are six things you can do to manage it, from wearing Poise liners to changing your diet:

A hysterectomy is a surgical procedure where the uterus is removed, ending menstruation and the ability to become pregnant. While the procedure is not uncommon, and some women undergo it as an elective procedure in order to eliminate their chances of becoming pregnant, a hysterectomy is still a significant surgical procedure that requires proper recovery and, later on, strength building. Below, we discuss four different post-hysterectomy exercises that you can do.

As if dealing with your blood sugar wasn’t already enough on its own, having diabetes can also lead to incontinence. In this guide, we explain the various links between having diabetes and having incontinence and also walk through your options for managing your incontinence so you can live your life to the fullest.