UTI INFECTION, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS & WHAT OUR DOCTORS NEVER TOLD US

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THE CONUNDRUM OF UTI INFECTIONS WHEN IT COMES TO MS PATIENTS

WHY ITS SUCH A SERIOUS PROBLEM

If your reasonably healthy and get a UTI infection it’s not a huge problem, one round of antibiotics and you’re done. Not with Multiple Sclerosis where its common to experience several UTI infections per year. 

The chronic nature of this infection has so many serious repercussions that we want to understand how its triggered and what we can do about it.

​One of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis occurs when the immune system destroys nerve tissue resulting in numbness that commonly spreads throughout the body as it progresses. Because of this “sensory dysfunction” MS patients don’t always know when their bladder is full or feel the pain of a bladder infection. When my daughter explained this fact to me, I was slightly horrified, how can you treat something you don’t even know you have? These circumstances are a recipe for disaster, an untreated UTI infection not only risks causing further complications but the need for an excessive amount of antibiotics. Those are 2 issues MS patients don’t want to add to their already full plate.

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