Faecal incontinence is bowel leakage, or difficulty controlling your bowel movements, and it's thought to affect more than one in eight Australians. Dulcie Commons is 68 years old and has lived ...

In many cases, it is treatable or manageable through lifestyle changes, pelvic floor exercises, medications, or even surgery.

Faecal incontinence is the inability to control your bowels. When you feel the urge to have a bowel movement, you may not be able to hold it until you get to a toilet. Or stool may leak from the ...

James Bullen: Men can have faecal incontinence, but it's reported more often in women, and their symptoms seem to be more severe. It's really common but rarely talked about.

Studies examining the prevalence of anal/faecal incontinence are difficult to compare as researchers have used different definitions to describe the problem. The commonly used definition of ...

Faecal incontinence has a cause, and careful assessment can result in diagnosis and successful treatment. If this should be found to be impossible for whatever reason, the mainstay of skin care is to ...

This guideline covers assessing and managing faecal incontinence (any involuntary loss of faeces that is a social or hygienic problem) in people aged 18 and over. It aims to ensure that staff are ...

Urinary incontinence has been discussed at length on Health24, but the sad truth is that many people also experience faecal incontinence.. In fact, according to a recent study, as many as one in five ...

The initial report by Shafik presented 32 patients with idiopathic faecal incontinence who underwent percutaneous PTNS for 30 min on alternate days for 4 weeks. 20 A >50% reduction in faecal ...

Faecal incontinence affects people in different ways, from suddenly, urgently needing to poo to mortifying leaks and accidents. It can be caused by a number of things including damage to the anal ...

This guideline covers assessing and managing faecal incontinence (any involuntary loss of faeces that is a social or hygienic problem) in people aged 18 and over. It aims to ensure that staff are ...