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 ...
UTIs have a stigma as an issue that mostly impacts women who sleep around a lot, but women get UTIs after sex with their boyfriends or husbands or after something like swimming in a lake or going ...
Current use of hormonal contraception for birth control, compared with never use, among women younger than 40 years is significantly associated with a 22-fold higher prevalence of recurrent UTIs.
(16) Recurrent urinary tract infections, defined as three or more UTIs within 12 months, or two or more occurrences within six months, is very common among women — but these aren’t treated ...
An infection that affects any part of your urinary system, including your kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra, is known as a urinary tract infection, or UTI. The most common type of UTI affects ...
But for women like Angela Dullaghan ... whose research focuses on chronic and recurrent UTIs, added "old-fashioned" tests used for UTIs can be especially bad at picking up on chronic infections.
One 2016 study evaluated the effect of D-mannose on 43 women with active UTIs and a history of recurrent UTIs. For the first 3 days, participants took a 1.5-gram dose of D-mannose twice daily ...