Advice for your customers
Small changes to their lifestyle can help customers to reduce the frequency and/or severity of their symptoms.
To help prevent cystitis advise your customers to:
- Drink at least one to two litres (three or four pints) of water every day.
- Avoid perfumed soaps, shower and bath products, vaginal deodorants etc.
- Wear cotton underwear and avoid wearing tight trousers.
- If cystitis is triggered by sexual intercourse, it can help if both wash carefully before and after sex.
- Empty bladder, before and after sex, as this helps flush out any bacteria which may have entered the urethra.
- Pass urine when feeling the urge, rather than trying to ‘hold on' until later and make sure the bladder is emptied completely.
- Wipe bottom from front to back to help prevent bacteria spreading.
Always refer to the GP if:
- Your customer is under 18
- Your customer is pregnant or breast-feeding
- Your customer is male
- Urine is cloudy or has blood in it
- Symptoms return or persist after using Canesten Oasis relief sachets for 48 hours
- Your customer is suffering severe stomach, groin or back pain
- Your customer is suffering from a fever (high temperature, nausea/vomiting)
- Your customer has unusually heavy vaginal discharge
- Your customer is taking any other medicine prescribed by a doctor
- Your customer has not had a bladder infection before
- Your customer has any history of kidney or heart disease
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