A web-based analysis has the advantage of capturing the views of a large and diverse population of women with a shared condition. Many of the accounts on the web forum are deeply personal ...
The women's use of metaphor captures their experience ... for some women to live with the uncertainty and discomfort of recurrent UTIs. For some forum users, the judicious use of antibiotics ...
Around one in five women have repeated UTIs – more than two UTIs in six months, or more than three in a year. “You may get a recurrent UTI if the first UTI wasn’t adequately treated,” Dr ...
It is most common in sexually active younger women. It is believed that women get UTIs more frequently because their urethra is shorter, making it easier for bacteria to enter the bladder. There are ...