Painful urination after catheterization

After the catheter is inserted, there will be pain, swelling, and local tingling in the urethra when you first urinate. This is mostly a sign of discomfort and will usually disappear within a few days. However, if the symptoms become more and more severe, you need to check whether there is a local urethral infection. If there are factors of inflammatory infection, you need to take medication in time.

Generally speaking, there is no need to insert a urinary catheter during natural childbirth. Some people need to insert a urinary catheter during natural childbirth because the bladder is compressed during the delivery process, and its function is temporarily lost and cannot be restored in time. After giving birth, a woman has a lot of excess water in her body that needs to be discharged, so this method is used to help the mother urinate in time.

Is Catheterization Necessary for Caesarean Section

A urinary catheter is usually inserted before a cesarean section. It is inserted from the urethral opening, which is above the vaginal opening. You will feel a little pain during insertion, but it is not painful. The catheter is elastic and the urethra is also elastic, so there is no need to be too nervous. Generally, it will be discharged 24 hours after the operation. You are encouraged to get out of bed to urinate. If you still cannot urinate by then, you may be inserted again.

Choosing the type of catheter when inserting a urinary catheter

1. Ordinary urinary catheter: used for disposable non-indwelling urinary catheterization

2. Fungus-shaped catheter: suprapubic cystostomy and cecum fistula

3. Pointed catheter: Prostate hypertrophy

4. Metal catheter: Urethral stenosis causes failure of conventional catheterization

5. Balloon catheter: commonly used in clinical practice