Cystitis or urinary tract infection (UTI) is the second most common bacterial infection in the UK.
About half of all women will experience at least one in their lifetime.
Although agony, most cases of UTI are short-lived. But what happens when an infection keeps coming back or becomes a debilitating, long-term illness?
This what we call a chronic UTI and it affects up to half a million people in the UK, mostly women but men and children too. Standard tests and treatment are inaccurate and ineffective and see many thousands of sufferers misdiagnosed or even dismissed as ‘problem patients’.
Our mission is to change this.
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We're campaigning to:
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raise awareness about chronic urinary tract infection
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challenge current tests which fail to diagnose as many as half of chronic UTIs
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gain recognition and proper treatment guidelines for chronic UTI
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expose the myth of interstitial cystitis (IC), painful bladder syndrome (PBS) and urethral syndrome (US)
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make effective treatment for chronic UTI available to all
Urinary bacteria biofilm ©Science Photo Library
1 December 2017
GP INFO SHEET
We know how hard it is to explain this condition to your GP so we've created a GP information sheet to help. Download it and take it to your next appointment.
Please sign the petition to re-open the Whittington LUTS clinic to new NHS patients.
Britain’s only clinic specialising in the treatment of chronic urinary tract infections has been closed to new NHS patients for two years. Hundreds of patients who have been referred to the clinic cannot be seen. There is no where else in the country where children can be successfully treated for chronic UTIs. Please sign our petition here.