Women with adult incontinence may suffer from disturbed sleep and may benefit from seeking medical advice.

Joyce Wesseldine, 66, told the Columbia Daily Tribune that she was just 55 years of age when she started needing to use the bathroom during the night.

Over the next few years, the problem progressed until she was needing to go between four and six times a night.

"Sometimes I would only get an hour's sleep," she revealed.

"The problem with that is you go to bed and you can't go back to sleep. You're not only losing the time of getting up and going to the bathroom, but you're losing the time to get back

into deep sleep."

Ms Wesseldine told the news provider that she was reluctant to seek help, but ultimately benefited from pelvic floor rehabilitative therapy.

The therapy helps to give women better control over their pelvic floor muscles so they can control the urge to urinate more effectively.

Women who are unable to sleep easy at night because of female incontinence may benefit from using bed protection, such as the Ganmill Quick Dry Washable Bed Pad, which protects mattresses or other furniture against incontinence while keeping the user dry and comfortable.