The possibility of developing a urinary tract infection increases rapidly after age 65. This is apparently the result of changes in the aging bladder which increase its susceptibility to infection. For example, the muscle tone of the bladder decreases, so that it may not empty completely. Hormonal ...

If your life is currently a misery because of attack after attack of cystitis, none of which seems to respond satisfactorily to medical cystitis treatment, you may feel it quite beyond your power to alter the situation. Rather than resigning yourself, though to a future centring upon ...

Do bear in mind, that common disorders have common causes. Infections of the urinary tract are the second most common infection to be seen by doctors. Very few cases of cystitis turn out to be due to tumours, and not many considering the number of cases seen yearly ...

Your doctor will want to look at your problem carefully; in first place to establish that the disorder is cystitis, and not something else producing similar symptoms. Infections of the cervix and vagina, for example, can mimic cystitis and urethritis, and cause pain on passing urine, but they ...