If You Have OAB with Urge Incontinence Your Urinary Microbiome May Be Off
November 11, 2019
Women with OAB and urge incontinence seem to
have a distinctly different number and type of bacteria naturally living in
their bladder
Both men and women are not found to have actually
‘sterile’ urine
Many of the bacteria that exist in a man’s or
woman’s urine are actually not tested for with traditional cultures, it takes
highly sophisticated laboratories to determine certain rarer organisms; thus
some of these differences are first being found
Over 465 distinct species of bacteria were
identified in one recent study of the urinary microbiome
When your health care provider says you didn’t
show infection on a urine test for UTI, they don’t mean that you were not found
to have any bugs as urine contains low numbers of bacteria at all times
Women with a healthy urine microbiome have
greater numbers of lactobacilli and they have less of the lactobacilli gasseri
and more lactobacilli crispatus
Women with OAB have been found to have 9 types
of bacteria living in low numbers in their bladder including: streptociccus,
staphylococcus, Gardnerella, actinomyces.
