More than 12,000 patients, the majority women, attended hospital with persistent urinary tract infections (UTIs) or cystitis last year, up from around 4,500 in 2001. There are no Nice guidelines for how to treat chronic UTIs and there is disagreement among doctors. His approach of prescribing long courses of antibiotics has won support among patients, but remains controversial within the medical profession. “I do everything with my daughter that I couldn’t do for a few years.”The latest NHS Digital data gives a breakdown of figures for both chronic cystitis and chronic interstitial cystitis. These numbers were combined to give the chronic UTI figures in this piece (both diagnoses, taken separately, also show an increase).

Source: The Guardian October 04, 2019 16:41 UTC