Question

A client reports to the nurse that after delivering a baby, she loses small amounts of urine each time she sneezes or laughs hard. which type of incontinence does the nurse anticipate?

Answer 1

This is called stress incontinence. When this occurs, there is a raise in intraabdominal pressure created by sneezing, coughing, or laughing. They call it stress incontinence because the activities described put pressure on the bladder. That stress can make one's bladder leak.