Then 24 years old, she suddenly developed searing bladder pain and other urinary tract infection symptoms. Bacteria had become embedded in her bladder wall, causing severe chronic symptoms. Together we founded a national patient advocacy organisation, Chronic UTI Australia Incorporated, and began gathering facts surrounding this growing public health crisis. As well as ignoring evidence that discredits UTI tests, the medical profession is reluctant to accept the science showing chronic infection can, and does, manifest inside the human bladder. In the same year my daughter developed a chronic UTI, 4.5 million Australians received a Medicare-funded urine culture test at a taxpayer cost of nearly $80m.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2021 02:37 UTC