Bi -bi -xA woman who has undergone the pain of urinary tract infections (IMP) all her adulthood welcomed the news that 99% of pharmacies in Wales will now be able to treat the condition without visiting a general practitioner.
72 -year -year -old Jones suffered from repeated “exhausting” infections of urinary tract for more than 50 years, and as a result he had two premature children.
“Imagine that on Friday in the afternoon, an infection of urine, and you need to wait until Monday to see a general practitioner – if you are lucky – to appoint a meeting,” she said. “I think this will be a great way forward.”
The new pharmacy service is applied only to women aged 16 to 64 years due to the complexity of the treatment of chronic IMPs in old age.
M -Jones from the Glamorgana Valley says that she was born “with a defect in my kidneys” and suffered from the IMP in a month from the age of 18.
“I had problems during pregnancy; I had two premature children from the way my kidneys were, and my iti. This is just what I had to endure my whole life. ”
She said that the new measures that allow pharmacies to independently produce medicines “will not help me” – because she is more than 70 years old – “But if it helps someone after 16-64 years, I think that it is welcome.”
“When I have UTI, I know that I am hopeless – I can’t do anything”, MS Jones Previously reported by BBC.
She said that she was trying to maintain health and self -repeat cranberry juice and vitamins, but often needs medicines to become better.
Speaking with BBC Radio Wals breakfast on ThursdayShe said: “Three days later [trying to manage the pain]You get the feeling of a bearing and back pain, and you know that this is a complete UTI, and you need to access your doctor. ”
She said that she learned to live with this “again and again”, but describes it as “so abroad.”
“Unfortunately, this is one of those things that we must endure.”
Loury PuuLoury Puu, a 31 -year -old pharmacist in Kernarfon – and a member of the Welly Pharmaceutical Council – said that the impact on the pharmacists is more responsible, was “fantastic news”, which allowed more patients to access UTI medicines “in a timely manner, so the infection will not worsen”.
She recommends calling in advance to make an appointment in order to avoid unnecessary trips to the pharmacy.
She said that the service was only for women, since the IMP for men is rare – and “if a man really receives a bacterial infection, a general practitioner will need to be tested to make sure that there is no risk of prostate cancer.”
And she said that it is important to be careful about the recipes of the IMP for elderly women.
“As women become older – and if they have more chronic recurrent urinary infections, the infection is more likely to be resistant to antibiotics that we usually prescribed.
“Thus, in these cases, the sample should be sent to the Laboratory of Microbiology before the start of treatment – just to make sure that we relate to the right errors.”
“The last thing you would like to get the wrong treatment is getting worse and not getting better.”
However, welcoming the transition to pharmacy assistance, M -in -Puu warned that it was important to “make sure that there was funding for Upskill employees,” adding that public pharmacies were already “overloaded”.
Wales public pharmacy is considered in “negotiations with the Wales government on this front.”
What are the symptoms of IMP?
According to NHS, signs of UTI can include:
- pain or sensation of burning in the monastery (dysuria)
- you need to write more often than usual
- It is necessary to pour more often than usually at night (nOcturia)
- you need to urinate suddenly or more urgently than usual
- urine that looks cloudy
- Blood in your urine
- Lower abdominal pain or back pain, right under the ribs
- high temperature, or sensation of hot or cold, and feverish
- Very low temperature below 36c
- Feeling of fatigue or weak
- Urine can also be dark or smell. However, if this is your only symptom, it may be because you did not drink enough water.
