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Do You use internittent catheters?
Stop putting your kidneys at risk!
Urinary tract infections can lead
to serious irreparable kidney damage.
Urinary tract infections are caused by
infectionous bacteria. These microorganisms
reproduce at a rapid rate and the bacteria will
quickly migrate from the urethra to the bladder
causing cyctitis or what most people call bladder
infection. From thereit continues to travel
upwards and into your kidneys causing a kidney
infection or pyelonephritis and possible
kidney damage and even producing kidney stones
and kidney disorders....Normal urine is sterile.
It contains fluids, salts, and waste products, but
it is free of bacteria, viruses, and fungi. An infection
occurs when microorganisms, usually bacteria from
the digestive tract, cling to the opening of the
urethra and begin to multiply. Most infections arise
from one type of Bacteria, Escherichia coli which
normally lives in the colon. In most cases, bacteria first
begin growing in the urethra. An infection limited to the
urethra is called urethritis. From there bacteria
often move on to the bladder, causing a bladder
infection, cystitis. Prostate infections can also occur
and are harder to cure, prostatitis,If the infection is not treated
promptly bactera may then go up the ureters to infect the
kidneys, pyelonephritis and if not treated right away can kill.
A common sourse of infection is catherters or tubes placed in
the bladder. Those whom use and handle catheters are to take special
care in their handling so that none of the tools or
equiptment are in any way infected.
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How to insert a catheter (men)
1. Assemble all equipment: catheter, lubricant, sterile gloves, cleaning
supplies, syringe with water to inflate the balloon, drainage receptacle.
2. Wash your hands. Use betadine or similar cleansing product (unless
instructed otherwise) to clean the urethral opening.
3. Apply the sterile gloves. Make sure you do not touch the outside of the
gloves with your hands.
4. Lubricate the catheter.
5. Hold the penis on the sides, perpendicular to the body. Stretch the penis
away from the body.
6. Begin to gently insert and advance the catheter.
7. You will meet resistance when you reach the level of the external sphincter.
Try to relax by deep breathing, and continue to advance the catheter.
8. Once the urine flow starts, continue to advance the catheter to the level of
the "Y" connector. Hold the catheter in place while you inflate the balloon.
Some men have developed urethral injuries due to the balloon being inflated in
the urethra. Care must be taken to ensure the catheter is in the bladder. You
may try to irrigate the catheter with a few ounces of sterile water. If the
solution does not easily return, you may not have the catheter far enough in the
bladder.
9. Secure the catheter, and attach the drainage bag.
How to insert a catheter (women)
1. Assemble all equipment: catheter, lubricant, sterile gloves, cleaning
supplies, syringe with water to inflate the balloon, drainage receptacle.
2. Wash your hands. Use betadine or cleansing product to clean the urethral
opening. In women clean the labia and urethral meatus using downward strokes.
Avoid the anal area.
3. Apply the sterile gloves. Make sure you do not touch the outside of the
gloves with your hands.
4. Lubricate the catheter.
5. Spread the labia and locate the meatus (opening which is located below the
clitoris and above the vagina).
6. Slowly insert the catheter into the meatus.
7. Begin to gently insert and advance the catheter.
8. Once the urine flow starts, advance the catheter another 2 inches. Hold the
catheter in place while you inflate the balloon. Care must be taken to ensure
the catheter is in the bladder. If pain is felt which inflating the balloon,
stop; deflate the balloon; advance the catheter another 2 inches; and attempt
to inflate the balloon again.
9. Secure the catheter, and attach the drainage bag.
I hope this explaination is easy enough to understand and remember.....
(STERILE ENVIROMENT!) NOW GIVE ME ONE MORE DAY TO RESEARCH WHOM IS IN YOUR
AREA WITH EXPERIANCE TO SHARE THIS EXPERIANCE WITH YOU.
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