I am at a loss for how to help my daughter and it breaks my heart to see her in pain just to use the bathroom. We have been to the Dr three times because she is screaming in pain just to tinkle. I thought she had a urinary tract infection but her test come out negative. The Dr recomends soaking in the tub with bakingsoda, and prescribed lidocain ointment to use just a very small amount outside the area.She also recomended using a paste mixture of hydrocortizion cream, aquaphor and maalox, which sometimes burns, on the area. My daughter is almost three and is still in diapers/pull-ups, potty training in pain is hopeless. Any suggestions to ease her pain are very much welcome. thank you.
Thank you for all your responces. Mallory was finally diagnosed with a bladder infection after three weeks of pain and Dr visits. We did see a urlogist who immediately started asking about her being constipated. She has struggled with constipation since she was one yr. He thought that the "potty" signals are getting mixed up and that the pain is really from her bowel. It is another area that we struggle with but I have been doing research on it and I am finding that we are not alone! Hopefully one day we will beable to get past this and get potty trained. Thanks again.
You may need to try a new pediatrician. I had to switch 4 times to get an office full of doctors who listen.
i recently thought i had my first UTI and what i had was urethritis, caused secondary to a yeast infection that, shall we say, travelled north? antibiotics took care of it,
but actually what hurt was to wipe, not urination. are you sure it is burning she's experiencing?
i would get a second opinion! poor little thing!!! ;(
Cranberry juice is a good idea, however I have suffered from long term kidney problems and cranberry can also be toxic in large amounts. My doctor has always told me to dilute it. I would also say a second opinion is needed.
Until you can get a 2nd opinion, I would have her drink plenty of cranberry juice (you have to look carefully to find the ones that are 100%cranberry juice, not mostly apple juice). That might help. I can't believe your doctor isn't more proactive about this. Good Luck with a 2nd opinion.
Does it hurt when she goes to the bathroom in her diaper? Or when she is potty training and going on the potty? My daughter is pretty much potty trained and we are having the same problem. She tells me it hurts when she goes potty, but I have pretty much chalked it up to be the chaffing from her not wiping correctly. She is highly independent and doesn't like it if I try to "help" her wipe. I usually end up wiping her anyway with a wipe and then I have been putting a dab of A&D on her. This seems to be helping a lot more and it is not as red in her flaps. Sorry to be descriptive. Is she chapped? Red? Inflammed? If so, it might just be burning everytime she uses the bathroom. Just a thought.
I would yake her to a urologist.
Sorry to hear about this! What a sensitive problem. My advice: change doctors immediately. No one should have to use such a coctail of meds just to tinkle. Poor thing! There are many other problems little girls can experience in that department other than a UTI; they are suseptable to many of the same things we are. I agree with Kimber Lee: see a pediatric urologist, find out what is wrong and most important what is causing it.
