A randomized standard controlled clinical study on overactive bladder and its management with Majoon Qust

Abstract

Overactive bladder (OAB) is a chronic medical disease that affects the quality of life for a large percentage of the population. Many people who are afflicted do not seek medical assistance. Patients with OAB usually get it as they become older.1 It is a condition in which various Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) related to urine storage coexist, with urinary urgency serving as the essential parameter and does not require confirmatory urodynamic evaluation. Urgency with at least one other symptom is essential to diagnose OAB. Thus, urgency is the pivotal symptom. Urgency incontinence is described as involuntary urine leakage that is accompanied or preceded by urgency in many OAB patients. this standardized definition abandoned the need that the leakage be a