Chronic UTIs: some patients told i that they had waited up to 25 years to be diagnosed with the disease 🔴Exclusive from connie_dimsdale
. “It is about generally how, though the healthcare system is set up to take patients’ experience as evidence, it is also set up to disregard or minimise the experiences of women and other marginalised groups specifically.”
Incorrectly receiving an interstitial cystitis diagnosis after being referred to a urologist is a common occurrence among women suffering from chronic UTI.50 per cent of infections being missed.Dipstick tests are paper tests with a chemical strip that are dipped into a urine sample. They change colour depending on what substances are present in the sample and whether any levels are higher than normal.
“It came out of research conducted by Edward Kass, an eminent infectious disease doctor who was studying kidney infections in pregnant women in the 50s,” she said. “It was a study conducted with a very small sample of women, and from that investigation, the standard was developed for all UTIs in all women and all men.
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