For some older women, recurring urinary tract infections - and the antibiotics typically prescribed for them - become a fact of life, but a new study offers a novel treatment that may deliver relief. Called electrofulguration, the minimally invasive procedure essentially...
For some older women, recurring urinary tract infections — and the antibiotics typically prescribed for them — become a fact of life, but a new study offers a novel treatment that may deliver relief.
“Once we had proven the bacteria were there, then it kind of opened the idea that fulguration in fact could be a definitive treatment for these patients,” Zimmern said. Fulguration has been used in the past to burn away bladder tumors, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Only about 5% of women were on continuous antibiotics after their last follow-up, compared to 74% before electrofulguration, according to the report.
Another study Zimmern is involved in is looking at what happens with women who do not have these chronic infections, how they’re protected, but that’s ongoing. Postmenopausal women can struggle with recurrent UTIs because of changes in levels of estrogen, which helps keep tissues strong in the pelvis, vagina and urethra, Kavoussi explained.A person may be prescribed antibiotics for a UTI, but it can take longer than a course of antibiotics for a natural barrier to infection to repopulate and keep bacteria from sticking to the surface of the bladder.
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