AOR - Bladder Manager (Urox)

Product Notes:

An overactive bladder can be a significant impairment to quality of life – curtailing social interactions, constantly interrupting one's sleep, and greatly increasing the risk of falls and injuries from "nocturnal polyuria." But the two main lines of defense ("incontinence briefs" and anticholinergic medications) both have significant costs, and the latter can have serious side effects, as well (and don't always work that well, anyway). All-natural Urox from AOR can help.

Urox Daily Bladder Control

In an ideal world, we'd only have to relieve ourselves a few times a day, when it's convenient... and certainly not after going to bed. But millions of people not only have to urinate ten or more times during the day (day frequency), but may also have to go several times during the night (nocturia). And often, the need to go is so urgent that we must seek out a bathroom immediately and since we can't always get there on time, we may need to wear extra protective undergarments (urge urinary incontinence).

Moreover, many of us (particularly women, often as a result of childbirth) also experience leakage when certain movements (even ones as innocuous as laughing!) affect the pelvic floor muscles (stress urinary incontinence).

Urox is a combination of standardized extracts of three types of natural herbs with a long history of usage in addressing urinary infections and in helping to tone the bladder and pelvic muscles. It was first developed in Australia by a naturopathic doctor and natural products formulator in 1999, and has undergone several refinements to improve its efficacy, since.

Clinically Proven

In a proper clinical trial (randomized double-blinded, placebo-controlled parallel design) of 150 men and women with overactive bladders, Urox has been shown to be able to produce significant reductions in all those symptoms within two months of regular usage:

• Reducing the daytime frequency by an average of two or three instances a day in the treatment group (to eight, the upper end of the 'normal' range);
• Cutting the nighttime trips to the loo in half (down from four to two); the urgency (having to drop whatever you're doing "when Nature calls") episodes down from an average of nearly four times a day at the start of the trial to 1-1/2 a day, after 8 weeks of use;
• Reducing the instances of not quite making it when that happens from 2.8 to 1.2 times a day; and,
• the instances of Stress Incontinence ('leaking' when you laugh, cough, sneeze, lift something, etc.) from a little over twice a day to only three-quarters of a time, on average.
• As a result, the proportion of users who had to use more than one pair of adult diapers or padded underwear a day dropped from 23% to just 6% in the treatment group.

Of course, these are all averages, and some will get worse results than these... but some do much, much better. In fact, 60% of the Urox users ended up within the normal daytime range (of 8 or fewer times); and for the more troublesome symptoms, nearly a quarter (24%) became symptom-free for nocturia; a similar percentage (23%) had no incontinence whatsoever; and urgency ceased to be an issue for one-fifth (21%) of the users.

Naming Note

Urox® is a registered trademark of the Seipel Group of Brisbane, Australia, whose founder and CEO, Tracey Seipel (a Naturopathic Doctor), appears in the two videos on this page to explain the nature and scope of the problem, and the development of the product and the science behind it.

AOR has secured the rights and medical license to sell this proprietary blend in Canada, but it is also marketed under other product and brand names in some other regions, including: Urox Bladder Control, Confitrol24, Happy Bladder, and Bedtime Buddy. The latter is the same medication marketed for children prone to bedwetting; a recent clinical trial found that it, too, brought significant improvements (using just one rather than two capsules per day).

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