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Advice please

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LizAnne01 · 09/08/2022 16:02

My Dad is currently in a geriatric ward in hospital. He has Alzheimers and Lewy Body. He was sectioned 8 weeks ago, but that has lapsed because the psychiatric hospital decided it was illness causing him to be delirious (he had a UTI, plus he got Covid and possibly had a TIA). Now the hospital he is in is calling for a psych evaluation because his behaviour has suddenly deteriorated again - he's grabbing his groin and saying ouch, stopped being able to talk, stopped being able to feed himself, his anger and violence is scary, and he's back to being incontinent as he was when he had the UTI (he wasn't before this). The ward is freezing cold and he doesn't have a temperature but our concerns that he has another UTI seem to be falling on deaf ears and we can't face the thought of him being sectioned again because he lost 3 stones in weight in the 6 weeks between being sectioned and 'successful' treatment of his previous UTI. Does anyone have any advice how we persuade the doctors to investigate him for a UTI (no chance of him peeing in a bottle), or how we can stop him getting sectioned again and sent to the awful place he was sent to last time.

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LadyGardenersQuestionTime · 09/08/2022 16:08

Do you have power of attorney? Have they given a reason for not testing for/treating for a uti?

GrowThroughWhatYouGoThrough · 09/08/2022 16:37

Ask the nurses to dip it next time he goes for a wee theres also urine collection pads which can go inside a normal pad if he's wearing them which they can take a sample from. I have been known to dip urine on a floor and syringe it into a bottle before now (needs must) when a patient wouldn't wee in a bottle

LizAnne01 · 09/08/2022 22:00

I do have his LPA. As regards the Drs, my info came from a family member who was visiting - by the time I got to the hospital all the doctors on the ward had departed for the day. I believe they just think it isn't another UTI because he's just cleared one. But I will be there earlier tomorrow and intend to find out as much information as possible.

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LizAnne01 · 09/08/2022 22:02

I should add that the nurses on duty have been brilliant all the way through and really listened to me this evening - they are going to try and get a sample of his urine to test.

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PritiPatelsMaker · 11/08/2022 16:14

I should add that the nurses on duty have been brilliant all the way through and really listened to me this evening - they are going to try and get a sample of his urine to test.

Have they managed to test his irons yet @LizAnne01?

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