I asked Professor Malone-Lee (Chronic UTI expert, London) what percentage of patients treated in his clinic are diagnosed with Chronic Urinary Tract Infection following a misdiagnosis of IC and PBS etc. This was his answer, ‘It may be over 90%. We are about to do a careful analysis of patients with the IC diagnosis, their symptoms, pathology, and the changes on treatment.........’.
Recently Professor Malone-Lee was asked the following questions:
You keep saying ‘successfully treated’. Will you please define for me what that entails exactly?
What symptoms ceased?
Duration of symptomless if any?
What was the course of treatment?
His response:
‘We used a symptom score
and microscopic pyuria
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23305196
And here are the papers using them which answer your queries
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00192-018-3846-5’
Why not take a look at the links and consider whether your bladder pain and symptoms are being caused by chronic infection?
The diagnosis of Interstitial Cystitis is one of exclusion. Tests (such as dipstick and culture) to rule out UTI as the cause are unreliable and frequently result in false negative results. UTI can not be properly ruled out until a urine sample has been analysed under a microscope. If there is evidence of white blood cells then infection is the most likely diagnosis.
Recently Professor Malone-Lee was asked the following questions:
You keep saying ‘successfully treated’. Will you please define for me what that entails exactly?
What symptoms ceased?
Duration of symptomless if any?
What was the course of treatment?
His response:
‘We used a symptom score
and microscopic pyuria
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23305196
And here are the papers using them which answer your queries
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00192-018-3846-5’
Why not take a look at the links and consider whether your bladder pain and symptoms are being caused by chronic infection?
The diagnosis of Interstitial Cystitis is one of exclusion. Tests (such as dipstick and culture) to rule out UTI as the cause are unreliable and frequently result in false negative results. UTI can not be properly ruled out until a urine sample has been analysed under a microscope. If there is evidence of white blood cells then infection is the most likely diagnosis.
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