7 Reasons Your Pee Smells Weird
For SELF, by Amy Marturana.
Your pee can tell you a lot about your health. While its color is a pretty good indicator of your hydration levels, dietary habits, and potentially, undiagnosed medical conditions, its smell can also clue you in to what’s going on inside your body.
“Normal urine, if you’re fairly hydrated, generally has a very limited amount of smell,” Ojas Shah, M.D., NYC-based urologist and professor of urology at Columbia University Medical Center and ColumbiaDoctors Midtown, tells SELF. Sometimes you may notice that your pee is a little smellier than usual. A slight change or an incr...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists say they are a step closer to solving chronic bladder diseases
Scientists have begun to unlock the genetic code to understand how the lining of the bladder functions as a barrier to store urine -- paving the way for possible new treatments for chronic bladder diseases such as interstitial cystitis and cancer. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 14, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Scientists say they are a step closer to solving chronic bladder diseases
(University of York) Scientists have begun to unlock the genetic code to understand how the lining of the bladder functions as a barrier to store urine -- paving the way for possible new treatments for chronic bladder diseases such as interstitial cystitis and cancer. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - March 14, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
New Approaches in Managing Interstitial Cystitis New Approaches in Managing Interstitial Cystitis
While there is no consensus on treatment for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome, the American Urological Association guideline recommends a step-wise approach.U.S. Pharmacist (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - February 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Urology Journal Article Source Type: news
Measuring pain: SLU scientist tests possible biomarkers
(Saint Louis University) A Saint Louis University researcher will leverage her discovery of a pain pathway to determine if either of two key molecules can be used as biomarkers for pain associated with four debilitating health conditions: chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), endometriosis, interstitial cystitis and vulvodynia. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - February 17, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Chronic cystitis leaves thousands in agony as antibiotics fail to kill their infections
For eight months, Carolyn Andrew from Hertfordshire struggled with her symptoms which doctors insisted were not caused by an infection, leaving the 65-year-old ‘desperate’ and ‘suicidal'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Virus responsible 'damages bladder lining for years'
The bug that causes and is responsible for cystitis, a type of e Coli bacteria, can reprogram the lining of the bladder, researchers from Washington University in St Louis found. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Doctors told me the pain was all in my mind
OUTDATED tests are forcing women to live with agonising cystitis but there is now hope. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - October 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Second Chance on Bladder US
“If you are given a second chance in life, don’t blow it,” you advise your eager resident. It has been an overwhelmingly busy day in the department. Interspersed between the motor vehicle collisions, hypoxic and hypotensive CHF exacerbations, and patients with florid sepsis, your team is trying to see and help all of the ankle pains, throat pains, and dysuria that have also walked through the waiting room doors. The neighborhood clinics are completely overbooked, and your department has been dealing with the overflow all week.
Your resident has three charts in her hand and has just finished presenting the two sicker ...
Source: EPMonthly.com - September 27, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Logan Plaster Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Poor testing of 'super-cystitis' could leave women with symptoms 'for rest of their lives'
Urinary tract infections affect 150 million people worldwide each year. But James Malone-Lee, a professor of medicine, at University College London, said the real number could be higher. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Researchers take a new step towards non-antibiotic bladder infection therapies
Cystitis is a common infection, particularly in women. Although usually treatable with antibiotics, patients can be plagued with recurrent and chronic infections. When ascending to the kidneys, bladder infections can turn into a life threatening complications, a particular concern in case of multidrug-resistant strains of the causative Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacterium. A new step towards non-antibiotic bladder infection therapies has now been taken by researchers. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - September 22, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Second Chance on Bladder US
“If you are given a second chance in life, don’t blow it,” you advise your eager resident. It has been an overwhelmingly busy day in the department. Interspersed between the motor vehicle collisions, hypoxic and hypotensive CHF exacerbations, and patients with florid sepsis, your team is trying to see and help all of the ankle pains, throat pains, and dysuria that have also walked through the waiting room doors. The neighborhood clinics are completely overbooked, and your department has been dealing with the overflow all week.
Your resident has three charts in her hand and has just finished presenting the two sicker ...
Source: EPMonthly.com - September 19, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Logan Plaster Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Towards better treatment of cystitis
(University of Southern Denmark) Every year, millions of people are treated for cystitis, but despite its prevalence, the disease is still a scientific mystery. Now a research team has succeeded in identifying how the bacteria responsible for the disease cause the disease to develop. This is a cause for optimism that more effective treatment methods can be developed. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - August 30, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Sex after the menopause
The menopause is a part of a woman’s life. Although most women don’t have to face this transitional period until their 40’s and 50’s, women who have a hysterectomy can expect to experience early menopause, with symptoms more severe than normal. During this time your ovaries will shut down, and you will no longer be able to conceive. Whether you are experiencing the menopause naturally or as a result of having a hysterectomy, one thing is for sure – this doesn’t have to mean the end of your sex life.
Although some women will experience a number of symptoms, which may affect their sex life, some women wil...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 23, 2016 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health sexual health sexuality Source Type: news
Sex after the menopause
The menopause is a part of a woman’s life. Although most women don’t have to face this transitional period until their 40’s and 50’s, women who have a hysterectomy can expect to experience early menopause, with symptoms more severe than normal. During this time your ovaries will shut down, and you will no longer be able to conceive. Whether you are experiencing the menopause naturally or as a result of having a hysterectomy, one thing is for sure – this doesn’t have to mean the end of your sex life.
Although some women will experience a number of symptoms, which may affect their sex life, some women wil...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 23, 2016 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health sexual health sexuality Source Type: news
