Randy,
Yes Renacidin is it! My primary care Dr. wasn’t familiar with it so I guess it’s time for a dreaded urologist appointment. Thanks Nicki From: Randy Anderson [mailto:randyanderson...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 12:25 PM To: Nichole Rohling; Randy Anderson Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] ? about Irrigating Catheter Hello Nichole It sounds like you and I went to the same doctor :-) :-). I believe the product your speaking of is Renacidin. I used Renacidin for years and then they stopped making it, for the reasons you mention. The main ingredient is citric acid. I found out a couple days ago that they have started making it again. According to my pharmacists the company's problem was in the packaging. He used to come in a large glass bottle with a rubber seal on the end. You had to draw the solution out with a syringe and then put it into the catheter. After doing this several times using the same bottle, there was a problem keeping it sterile so they discontinued it. Sometime since they started repacking it in individual use containers. I am planning on starting it again. As far as a plug catheter, if the plugs while I'm in my chair I try laying back. Then all try squeezing the catheter, but if all else fails I use a syringe to be late the balloon of the catheter. This has worked for me about 95% of the time, but when you do this you need to be careful that the catheter doesn't come out at all. If it does, when you inflate it again it will cause some problems because the catheter is no longer in the bladder. Hope this helps, Randy On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Randy Anderson <randyanderson...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Nichole It sounds like you and I went to the same doctor :-) :-). I believe the product your speaking of is Renacidin. I used Renacidin for years and then they stopped making it, for the reasons you mention. The main ingredient is citric acid. I found out a couple days ago that they have started making it again. According to my pharmacists the company's problem was in the packaging. He used to come in a large glass bottle with a rubber seal on the end. You had to draw the solution out with a syringe and then put it into the catheter. After doing this several times using the same bottle, there was a problem keeping it sterile so they discontinued it. Sometime since they started repacking it in individual use containers. I am planning on starting it again. As far as a plug catheter, if the plugs while I'm in my chair I try laying back. Then all try squeezing the catheter, but if all else fails I use a syringe to be late the balloon of the catheter. This has worked for me about 95% of the time, but when you do this you need to be careful that the catheter doesn't come out at all. If it does, when you inflate it again it will cause some problems because the catheter is no longer in the bladder. Hope this helps, Randy On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Nichole Rohling <zoocr...@windstream.net> wrote: Several years ago a urologist gave me a prescription for something to use to irrigate my catheter/bladder. At the time I couldn’t get it because of something going on with the company and the FDA. Dr. told me just use sterile water. Do any of you use something besides sterile water to irrigate or know the name of liquid that is a prescription? My urine has had a foul odor and within the last few weeks it’s leaked 4 times. Sunday it drained fine but when I got in bed and we tried to irrigate it wouldn’t go in. My caregiver squeezed up and down the catheter and she was finally able to get it irrigated. It was fine Monday and last night the same thing happened but we couldn’t get it to irrigate. Ended up changing the catheter. Had a lot of sediment crystals in urine. I haven’t changed anything but obviously something is going on………ugh! Nicki
