Minimize Your Bathroom Visits With Targeted Herbs

Minimize bathroom visits with targeted herbs.

- Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa

Are you always scouting out restroom locations when you’re in public? How about ducking social engagements for fear of having an accident? If you’re planning life around your urinary patterns, you probably have a case of overactive bladder (OAB). OAB may result from stretched or weak pelvic muscles, chronic bladder infections, bladder diseases, diabetes, or obesity. Men often feel the need to urinate frequently due to an enlarged prostate, while women tend toward bladder infection and pelvic muscle weakening.

About 33 million Americans, both men and women, live with OAB, but the real number is probably much larger because people don’t ask for help or are embarrassed. OAB is marked primarily by a sudden, uncontrollable urge to urinate. Some will experience incontinence frequently and out of the blue. Those with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) experience “leaks” while sneezing, laughing, or exercising.