Several years ago a urologist gave me a prescription for something to use to irrigate my catheter/bladder. At the time I couldn't get it because of something going on with the company and the FDA. Dr. told me just use sterile water.
Do any of you use something besides sterile water to irrigate or know the name of liquid that is a prescription? My urine has had a foul odor and within the last few weeks it's leaked 4 times. Sunday it drained fine but when I got in bed and we tried to irrigate it wouldn't go in. My caregiver squeezed up and down the catheter and she was finally able to get it irrigated. It was fine Monday and last night the same thing happened but we couldn't get it to irrigate. Ended up changing the catheter. Had a lot of sediment crystals in urine. I haven't changed anything but obviously something is going on...ugh! Nicki
