Catheter -urinary tract infection

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Do any mumsnetters have experience of a catheter removal causing a UTI?
My elderly father had a trial without catheter a few days ago (catheter inserted months ago due to benign prostatic dysplasia) following a number of unsuccessful trials and this one seemed to be successful.He could urinate and the urology dept was happy to send him home without the catheter.He peed many times and I was with him keeping a record.

Unfortunately the next day he developed a quite bad UTI,went confused and is now hospitalised,again unable to pee.The.team seem unsure if it was the catheter removal that caused the UTI or if he again went into urinary retention and this caused the infection.

If it was the infection that caused him to stop peeing then there's a chance he could pee again but if he simply went into retention again then looks like he'll be stuck with the catheter.If anyone has similar experience please share as I'm slowly cracking up with it all and the team are dithering as to trial him without catheter again or not!

Thanks!

No advice but have had experience of dealing with catheters so I can sypathise. Has anyone talked about a TURP or the laser equivalent?

Thanks for the reply.Unfortunately he's not a candidate as he's 90 and also has a blood disorder.Other than the catheter he's actually in good health and this is basically ruining and restricting his life.It's hard being old!

Very unlikely to be the removal of the catheter which caused the infection. Likely was brewing whilst the catheter was insitu.

An option is for him to self catheterise a few times a day. It's really easy to do when you get the hang of it. Alot of people prefer this as it means that they don't have a permanent catheter in and have to empty and change the bags. Definitely worth speaking to the urologist about.