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[Beautiful]

I've never had to flush my bladder out before, but I had a urologist give me like 10 bottles of the flushing solution a few months ago but I've since used them up. I noticed a big difference in my health! But for some reason, my urologist suddenly left his office (I don't even want to know why). I haven't been able to find a new urologist so I asked my regular doctor for an RX of the flush. I quickly found out that no place carries it. I live in America and I've tried Safeway pharmacy, Walmart pharmacy, Rite Aid, and Walgreens! After talking with different pharmacists, they told me I should just make my own, its basically just water and salt. Here's what I found on the topic (I was told that the solution to clean wounds is the same thing I was trying to find):

http://wiki.answers....washing_a_wound

But I just feel safer asking people who actually have to flush their bladders...

[rattrap]

Here's some advice from a friend of mine:

I use a irrigatant (sp?) after my last cath of the day before I go to bed. It's a saline, neosporin mix. If you ask your doctor about a bladder irrigant, they can prescribe it to you. Its two seperate prescriptions. Oe is for a bottle of Saline, one is for .9 cc's of neosporin. You use a filtered needle to draw up .5 cc's of neosporin and put it into the bottle of saline. then you flush it through the cath after you have pee'd before bed. This kills the bacteria that may be in your bladder and has been really helpful since I started it, Ive only had one UTI since Ive been doing it. (:

[edlee]

Unfortunately,, I have, over the past year or so, been forced to flush on a regular basis. Of late,, it's become pretty routine. My urologist that it wasn't really necessary to use distilled or sterile water,, as long as it was clean and drinkable. He said that the salt wasn't needed either,, that the benefit was due to the mechanical " washing down the walls" ( his words) itself.

He suggested a monthly flush with a solution of water and white vinegar ( 5 to 1 ratio) to change the PH and "shake up any little buggers lurking in there" ( again, his words),, in addition to the regular regimen.

One suggestion of my own,, use luke warm water so as not to cause bladder spasms,, and their natural result.
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[Kwag_Myers]

Ha, I misread the title to say, "Making Your Own Flushing Sounds". I hope you enjoy my faux pas as much as I did.

[Beautiful]

Hahaha! I definitely laughed out loud.

I ended up getting distilled water and regular table salt. I haven't made any yet though.

[Tetracyclone]

Some prefer sea salt. Who knows? I live in NY and have no difficulty getting this by prescription:
0.9% Sodium Chloride Irrigation USP

I cannot imagine why you cannot get it. Distilled water is cheap and will do the job, but saline is less of an irritant, so use may depend on how often you have to irrigate.

In the end there is this test: try distilled water and if you suffer no spasms or observable reaction, go with it.

[airart1]

so it's just a saline solution i suppose, beautiful? should be simple to make for sure, wonder if you should boil the water to sterilize it....just wondering...........

[Beautiful]

I have yet to make the solution. I'm kind of nervous, haha...

I don't have spasms of any kind. Ever. Yeah, I've been told by several people to boil it. I don't know how to keep it though. I'm nervous because people said to store it in a dark place or else it'll grow algae. If I make a big "batch" of it, where should I keep it? I don't want to make this big jug of it then three days later see algae. Maybe I should buy some smaller containers.

Pat, that is the kind I was using. I'm not sure why I can't find it anywhere either. It's SO irritating!!!

EDIT: Actually... do you think I could buy this? http://www.dealmed.c..._7c7870_a_7c944

isn't it basically the same thing? It looks like it to me... I'm just worried about ordering something online...

Edited by Beautiful, 09 January 2012 - 01:15 AM.

[Trinity]

Beautiful, on 09 January 2012 - 12:48 AM, said:

I have yet to make the solution. I'm kind of nervous, haha...

I don't have spasms of any kind. Ever. Yeah, I've been told by several people to boil it. I don't know how to keep it though. I'm nervous because people said to store it in a dark place or else it'll grow algae. If I make a big "batch" of it, where should I keep it? I don't want to make this big jug of it then three days later see algae. Maybe I should buy some smaller containers.

Pat, that is the kind I was using. I'm not sure why I can't find it anywhere either. It's SO irritating!!!

EDIT: Actually... do you think I could buy this? http://www.dealmed.c..._7c7870_a_7c944

isn't it basically the same thing? It looks like it to me... I'm just worried about ordering something online...

that looks perfect for what you are describing and a helluva lot easier than making your own! If you want to shop around google 0.9% sodium chloride for irrigation, you should be able to get it from a pharmacy though, no reason if you have a prescription they could not order it in for you

[airart1]

what is up with that, reckon, any good pharmacy should and are obliged to order it for you.....i've never been refused from a pharmacy not to get it in for me if they didn't have it in stock........