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The Patient's Encyclopaedia of Urinary Tract Infection, Sexual Cystitis, Interstitial Cystitis

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The Patient's Encyclopaedia of Urinary Tract Infection, Sexual Cystitis, Interstitial Cystitis

Classic urinary tract infection and inflammation has pain, frequency, bleeding, backache and/or fever in any order or combination. It is also known as cystitis. No figures are kept because it is so very common, but in the 25 years since Angela introduced self-help and prevention, attacks in the UK have dropped by 50% from their high in 1971 when they were over 25 million a year. The medical profession generally has not changed its treatments at all, still only offering antibiotics, poor quality urine sampling and futile trips to helpless urologists who may cause further procedural damage. Truthfully, control and elimination of cystitis is not always their affair. Most cystitis is caused by the patient or sexual partner, their lifestyle somewhere and no doctor can help to resolve this. Responsibility lies with each sufferer to find out why her attacks occur and then they become preventable. The gut and bowels are the source of virtually all the bacteria whether common or uncommon. Usually bacteria come from the sufferer's own bowels, but all too often an unwashed foreskin is the culprit. Hemorrhoids and episiotomy scars can railroad more bacteria forward, devastating relationships, jobs, social life and general well being. Angela teaches simple but effective measures to limit bacteria travel at no cost.

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Common sense help, November 1, 2007
By acadiana, Louisiana, USA

"I read this book specifically for help with recurrent cystitis and have found some of the author's suggestions to be not only sensible but helpful. Kilmartin's first principle is proper hygiene, and her bottle irrigation technique for preventing cystitis attacks seems to be working for me. I did not try the emergency treatment for relieving the pain of a sudden attack, but I like having this information on hand should I need it. Over the years I've read other volumes on the subject; this one has been the most helpful in that it stresses things the cystitis sufferer can do for herself (or himself) to take control of the situation."

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