I had an anxious mother on last week about her three year old daughter refusing to wee because it hurt. The child had made a link between weeing and drinking so she was also refusing to drink so she wouldn’t have to wee. Of course liquid just had to be got down her because kidneys need liquid to function and to prevent a rising infection to them from the outside. My suggestions revolved around bribes, unusual drinking vessels, straws and anything else. Best for many mixed up in a jam or jelly whether for child or adult,  Bicarbonate of Soda from the baking cupboard is the quickest and cheapest way to counter the inflammation and soreness of an attack of cystitis/urinary/water infection.

An adult dose as in my Three Hour Management Process in my book is one teasp on the hour every hour for just three hours. Clearly that’s too much for a child so I recommended a third of a teaspoonful  again on the hour for just three hours. My e-book and hard book detail the reasons more closely. A small piece of favourite cake/ biscuit/sweet/chocolate or whatever helps the bribing process along. Then its very important to try and discover why. In my six page e- booklet for children on urinary infections and their causes, there is a huge amount of information and I strongly urge you to get this. Your child’s kidneys cannot stand scar tissue at a young age and medical help is no help at all. Most of the causes lie in the home and school regimes and routines.

This isn’t complicated but explanation can take time. Suffice it to say that if you have polycystic ovaries, a cyst on an ovary or other ovarian conditions, there is a chance that the condition is causing a drippy discharge. On a 24 hour basis this discharge will eventually exit on the vulva and smudge around the urethra. This tiny tube only about 3 cms long runs up into the bladder. If it is 24 hour ‘smudged’ with an irritant discharge probably loaded with bacteria of some sort, then the highly sensitive urethral opening and bladder lining will become sore and painful.

In my book, The Patient’s Encyclopaedia of Urinary Tract Infection, Sexual Cystitis and IC, there is in the hygiene section and in the sexual cystitis section, if I remember correctly, a little process I call Vaginal Cleaning only ever to be done AFTER a full Bottle Wash. This cleans out the vaginal drip and the urethral irritant/pain will subside. Not for ever of course, since the ovarian discharge is ongoing, but nevertheless, sufficient to make you more comfortable. Its there in the book primarily for use, cleaning out after sex, again to reduce heat and irritation.

So have a go at this once you have cleared all other possibilities of infection from vaginal swabs and Mycoureaplasma tests.