Can a medical person help with catheter problem?!


Question: Can a medical person help with catheter problem!?
Posted this earlier but did not show!. My almost 90r old dad is perm!. catheterised due to Prostate problems and a large Aortic Aneurism, both too dangerous for surgery to be carried out!. He has been catheterised for over a year, it has had it problems but on the whole helpful!. It is a 3 monthly catheter but often requires changed before this!. His surgery nurses are helpful but every time they attempt to change it he suffers incredible pain!. (he has a good pain threshold)unllike when it is done in the hospital!. Yesterday there were 2 nurses and a student and they just could not manage to insert a new catheter!. He was sent to the hospital to have this done!. All seemed well but this morning his bed was wet and the catheter seems to by by passing!. Some urine is going in to the bag but also wetting his trousers!. He is a very particular man and this really upsets him!. I phoned the surgery nurses for him but had to leave a message on the answer service!. He tells me got a return phone call but the nurse said he will just have to put up with this and going to bring him in some pads!. He is lucid, suffers no confusion so no reason to think anything different was said!. I wanted to phone the nurses but he hates causing trouble!. Surely this defeats the purpose of the catheter!? Would appreciate any advice from any one out thre who knows about this!. I understandit is not a major health problem but at his age it upsets him greatly to be wet and from experience he know pads aren't the answer!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Just a word of caution about the previous answer!. I assume he had to have the catheter inserted because his prostate became so enlarged it blocked his urethra!. If the catheter is taken out for a 'rest' it may cause urine retention again and it could be very difficult to put back in again!.

My guess is that either he has a size too small or they may not have inflated the retention balloon sufficiently!. In either case it is a disgrace and cause for complaint that the nurses suggest he has to put up with temporary incontinence!. A catheter should drain urine - plain and simple!. If it is not draining then someone has not done their job properly and it needs to be rectified!.

I'm afraid I don't have any magic solutions for you, for sure he needs to go back and have the tube adjusted!. I'm so sorry you are being treated this way!.

ps: Don't take any notice of 'the_solorose', typical registered nurse - blame the patient!! If he has just had it fitted it is difficult to see how it can block so soon!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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you need to contact the nurses because it sounds like your dad might have had the wrong size catheter inserted!. so get them to check exactly what size he needs, this might be all he needs to save him being embarrassed or wet!. if this keeps happening then see if your dad could maybe manage with pads for a while and have the catheter removed to give his bladder time to revcover from constantly having tubes inserted and also give your dad time to get over the painWww@Answer-Health@Com

Well, at least the urine is coming out, if it didn't his bladder would rupture and he'd die!.!.!.!.!.the reasons cathetars clog is that they become full of mucous and detritus and that happens because the person with one does not drink enough water, so he is the author of his own issues here!. I suspect that the nurses who have been helping you are really tired of telling him to drink more water, and knowing he isn't because his cathetar keeps clogging!. Even if he had a suprapubic cathetar inserted, if he didn't drink enough water, that too would clog and stop working!. If he won't help himself, not sure what you expect anyone else to do for him!.!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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