What to do if a bedridden elderly person can’t urinate

Bedridden elderly people need to go to the hospital in time to give an indwelling urinary catheter when they can’t urinate. Bedridden elderly due to long-term bedridden inactivity, will affect the bladder function to a certain extent, and make urination and easy to cause urinary tract infection, and then aggravate the difficulty in urination, and ultimately can make the urine can not be relieved leading to urinary retention. In this case, it is necessary to go to the hospital in a timely manner to consult a medical professional to perform catheterization and indwelling urinary catheter in order to empty the bladder to relieve the pain. Catheterization must be strictly carried out in aseptic operation to avoid infection, urine should be released slowly and intermittently, after the first release of 200ml or so, clamp the urinary catheter, and after an interval of 20~30 minutes, release 200ml of urine again, and so on for many times until the bladder is emptied, and must avoid rapid emptying of the bladder, and the sudden drop in internal pressure which may lead to bleeding of the bladder. Bedridden elderly people need to go to the hospital in a timely manner when they can not urinate, and actively give appropriate treatment.