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Penny Pijnenberg

πŸ‘€ Speaker
233 total appearances

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The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

But let's say, so basically almost everyone, right, that's nearly 80% of women who can get this at somewhere between, well, you're saying your daughter has it.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

So let's say between your 20 and your 100.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

Because a lot of women in the care homes or older women get all these UTIs, right?

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

My sister works in a care home.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

I've once asked her, I said, is this actually true?

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

And she says, yes, a lot of them.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

And the doctors give them a lot of antibiotics.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

And it's so sad.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

But also the doctors in the care homes.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

When you came over to the Netherlands, I was trying to get in touch with a doctor who was at the care home where my mother lived.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

Because I wanted her to see also your presentation about the risk of not taking hormones.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

Because I think the people that are the geriatric doctors that are treating elderly, I don't think they are aware of this link.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

And yes, it might be too late to start an 80-year-old woman maybe on hormones.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

No, not at all.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

Yeah, that's a whole discussion too, right?

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

But at least I think it's good if those doctors understand, but there seems to be a gap.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

Yeah.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

Yeah.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

So my mother passed away about a little bit over a year and a half ago.

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
61 – Living with untreated urinary symptoms

And the last nine months of her life, she was living in a care home.