Description

Cystitis is an inflammation or infection of the bladder. Your bladder feels full even when it isn't, and you may also suffer pain, backache and misery. It's one of the most common and most painful everyday health problems that affect women. In the past, many women resigned themselves to being recurrent sufferers, but if you read this book you need never suffer again.

Caroline Clayton explains the causes of cystitis, including the role of sex, diet, bacteria, and candida. It gives emergency advice, to show you how to cope as soon as an attack begins, along with information about talking to your doctor, and self-help approaches to make cystitis a thing of the past.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• What is cystitis?
• Why cystitis can be a big pain in more ways than one
• A woman's problem
• Why a woman's plumbing makes her prone to cystitis
• Cystitis and sex
• When bacteria and bruising spell double trouble
• What else can cause cystitis?
• Thrush and cystitis
• Diet, diabetes and cystitis
• Alcohol, food allergies and the anti-candida, anti-cystitis diet explained
• Emergency! How to cope when a cystitis attack begins
• Cystitis and your doctor
• Treating cystitis
• Specialist help
• Self help: helping yourself to a happy ever after
• Cystitis-free sex
• Alternative remedies
• Other problems: when cystitis is not cystitis
• Interstitial cystitis
• Some case studies
• Getting to the root of the problem
• Notes
• Useful addresses
• Index

About the author

Caroline Clayton is a journalist with a keen interest in women's health. Caroline is also the author of Coping with Thrush, the new edition of which was published by Sheldon Press in 1994.