For the 5th time in 2 months, I am pretty sure Mil has yet another UTI It's so frustrating - I just don't know what I can do to try and prevent them. I battle to get her in the bath at least 3 times a week, I am fairly certain that her life long habit of fresh undies daily is still part of her routine - though I am not sure that she washes properly in between baths, and she refuses cranberry juice - hates the stuff. I struggle to get her to drink enough - I offer, she refuses because she doesn't 'want to be running to the toilet all the time'. I explain about the need for her to drink plenty, and its 50/50 as to whether she will agree to have a drink - though even if she does, chances are she will tip it away if she can .
She finished AB's for the last infection on Wednesday. Today, warning bells started to jingle at me hearing her to and fro the loo several times between 4.30 and 6a.m., and slightly increased confusion when she got up. I tried asking her tactfully if all was OK, but she was formal and distant with me - so at that point, She obviously felt she didn't know me well enough to discuss 'private' stuff. Late this afternoon, she left her bedroom door open - and I smelt urine as I passed by. She had washed 2 pairs of panties - not very well - and put them on the radiator - and they stank I tried being tactful, asked her if she had washing, and it then transpired she had washed them by rubbing them with the tablet of hand soap in the bathroom Tact got me nowhere in terms of getting her to let me wash them properly - in the end, I had to be a bit blunt - and then we had tears, and then she admitted she was again having uti symptoms - to the extent that not being able to wait whilst someone was in the bathroom, she had resorted to having to wee o to her dressing gown, on the floor - and that was stuffed in a bag by the radiator too And its not the first time tbat has happened.
The GP wants to put her on long term ABs - but is there anything else I could be doing, or any advice for managing this for her, please?
She finished AB's for the last infection on Wednesday. Today, warning bells started to jingle at me hearing her to and fro the loo several times between 4.30 and 6a.m., and slightly increased confusion when she got up. I tried asking her tactfully if all was OK, but she was formal and distant with me - so at that point, She obviously felt she didn't know me well enough to discuss 'private' stuff. Late this afternoon, she left her bedroom door open - and I smelt urine as I passed by. She had washed 2 pairs of panties - not very well - and put them on the radiator - and they stank I tried being tactful, asked her if she had washing, and it then transpired she had washed them by rubbing them with the tablet of hand soap in the bathroom Tact got me nowhere in terms of getting her to let me wash them properly - in the end, I had to be a bit blunt - and then we had tears, and then she admitted she was again having uti symptoms - to the extent that not being able to wait whilst someone was in the bathroom, she had resorted to having to wee o to her dressing gown, on the floor - and that was stuffed in a bag by the radiator too And its not the first time tbat has happened.
The GP wants to put her on long term ABs - but is there anything else I could be doing, or any advice for managing this for her, please?