The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recently revised the guidelines for treating children
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recently revised the guidelines for treating children, but parents say the changes fail to account for the outdated testing methods still being
Florence, 13, has seen countless doctors…
undergone intrusive surgeries, and even been encouraged to try mindfulness to overcome the pain, but the chronic infection has not subsided. One mother and her daughter’s horrific story. Read the
Children are losing their childhoods…
to agonising chronic urinary tract infections as there is currently no official treatment pathway available to them in the UK ‘My daughter told me she didn’t want to live any
Living with chronic UTIs: ‘I was sleeping on the loo with a pillow propped against the sink’
Kelly Fogerty was misdiagnosed and endured three years of excruciating pain from a chronic urinary tract infection before her health finally started to improve. I went into hospital on 25
‘I was begging to just die’: Meet three women living with chronic UTIs
This month, the NHS website finally recognised chronic UTIs as a condition after years of campaigning from the Chronic Urinary Tract Infection Campaign (CUTIC) and Bladder Health UK. PRUDE spoke
The NHS just changed its guidelines on chronic UTIs, so what does this mean for sufferers?
Despite being deeply unpleasant, UTIs, aka Urinary Tract Infections, are very common. In fact, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, up to 50% of women will experience a
Chronic UTI infections: NHS finally recognises debilitating condition exists in online advice for patients
‘It seems like such a tiny thing, but it’s made such a difference,’ campaigners say… Read the full article here.
USW researcher wins £50,000 prize to to develop urinary tract infection test
A scientist at the University of South Wales (USW) who helped to make a rapid test for Covid-19 has received £50,000 in funding to further develop the same technology to
Can drug repurposing uncover better treatments for UTIs?
Growing antibiotic resistance and chronic urinary tract infections have illustrated the need for new, effective treatments for UTIs. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are extremely common; many are unfortunate enough to