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Catheter problems

Hey guys

Quick question. My dad is currently a home care patient with a catheter. He also has a colostomy that seems to make noises and leak smells all at the wrong moments :uhoh3: anyway my problem and so is the home care nurses problem is that he goes through catheters like crazy. It is always leaking or clogged and its very hard to put in (his member has sucked in kinda like a prostate or hernia problem but neither are there) he is only 50 and its kinda weird he is having suck issues. Any ideas on how to be able to prolong the catheter? We tried bigger ones he has a 30 cc in right now. Thanks

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He does have a wound care specialist that was tending to both his colostomy and his bed sore (some nurses didn't think it was important to clean him up everytime he went to the bathroom but that is a whole other story lol) but they said his stoma was concaved and he was using the flat pieces but that was the end of that. As for the wedding tomorrow I'll try the asprin and blue stuff as well as a clean bag!

The superpubic cather...can you explain furthur how this works...is this the one that you clamp and then drain so often? if so that would be an excellent idea...then you don't have the infections down there and the constent changing of the catheter which increases bacteria and increased risk for skin breakdown from all the leakage. Good idea...lol

oh by the way happy birthday to me!! As of now july 23 I am 22! yay

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Happy Birthday :balloons:

Superpubic catheters are what we recommend for patients with long term catheters- unfortunatly dont have lot of experience as they tend to go to urology as an out patient and we never see them again.

http://carecure.rutgers.edu/spinewire/Research/Suprapubic.htm

Found this article but dunno if it will help but it does give good arguments for and against

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