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VAT Exemption Available on Incontinence Products

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Incontinence Choice Team

Here at Incontinence Choice we are able to offer VAT exemption on all incontinence products that are being purchased for personal use. Additionally, products in our catalogue that specifically aid disability or severe injury may also be eligible. Products are … Continue reading →

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Using estrogen could lead to urinary incontinence

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Incontinence Choice Team

The American Menopause Society recently released a journal detailing the results of a study into the relationship between self-reported estrogen use and urinary incontinence among postmenopausal women. The study was based up on the surveyance of postmenopausal women, of the … Continue reading →

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Bladder and Bowel Foundation publish ‘Facing up to Incontinence’

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Incontinence Choice Team

According to people living with the incontinence symptoms, embarrassment is a major factor in preventing them from seeking treatment, and effective management of their illness. Facing up to Incontinence is a new booklet that has been created by the Bladder … Continue reading →

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A Practical Guide To TENA Incontinence Products

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Incontinence Choice Team

TENA are at the forefront of innovation when it comes to skincare, dryness and caregiver ergonomics, three key factors in keeping the overall cost of managing incontinence down. TENA’s continuing improvement is based on a clear understanding of the needs … Continue reading →

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Female smokers prone to suffering bladder problems

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Incontinence Choice Team

It has been discovered by researchers in Finland that bladder problems are seen more often among female smokers than nonsmokers which may be further motivation for women to quit smoking. The studied woman were almost three times as likely to … Continue reading →

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Gerard Depardieu makes light of his in flight incontinence

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Incontinence Choice Team

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The Green Card star has made a video entitled ‘Les Gaulois Dans L’Espace’ recently after he was kicked off the plane for relieving himself in the aisle of the Air France flight from Paris to Dublin. Friends of the actor … Continue reading →

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National Continence Awareness Week 19 – 25 September

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Incontinence Choice Team

From the 19th – 25th September the bladder and bowel foundation will hold its annual National Continence Awareness Week. The aim is to make women much more aware of a very common and distressing health condition and to make them … Continue reading →

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Incontinence product recycling plant opens in the midlands

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Incontinence Choice Team

The UK’s first ever plant for recycling incontinence products opened this september. The facility, which will also recycle feminine hygiene and nappoes is part of a schem where five planned to be constructed over four years by Knowast an organisation … Continue reading →

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Injection of muscle cells to cure incontinence?

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Incontinence Choice Team

Patients are being injected with their own muscle cells in a bid to cure hard-to-treat cases of incontinence. The idea is that these jabs boost the strength of the existing muscles around the bladder, easing the symptoms of the condition … Continue reading →

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Breakthrough cure for bowel incontinence sufferers

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Incontinence Choice Team

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Statistics report that faecal incontinence can affect as many as 1 in 10 british people at some time in their lives1, they also go on to suggest that “major faecal incontinence” affects 1.4% of the general population over 40 years … Continue reading →

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