{"id":324,"date":"2009-08-02T17:49:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womentc.wordpress.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2023-03-30T21:02:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:02:28","slug":"voiding-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/blog\/voiding-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Voiding &#038; sex","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago it was believed that voiding (urinating) before and after having intercourse will guard against developing a urinary tract infection (UTI), sending women running in and out of bathrooms at a frantic pace.<\/p>\n<p>But was it urine in the system that caused the infection, or the penis&#8217; rubbing\/chafing the underside of the urethra (urine tube)?<\/p>\n<p>Everything that is inserted into the vagina will slide against the underside of the urethra = an anatomical fact.\u00a0\u00a0 In some cases, this natural rubbing will cause irritation that may develop into a urinary tract infection, but it has nothing to do with urine that is housed in the bladder!<\/p>\n<p>The most current medical research about this very topic (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11295405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recurrent urinary tract infection in women<\/a>) states the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many factors thought to predispose to recurrent UTI in women, such as pre-and post-coital voiding patterns, frequency of urination, wiping patterns, and douching have not been proven to be risk factors for UTI.<\/li>\n<li>Strategies to prevent recurrent UTI in young women should include education about the association of recurrent UTI with the frequency of sexual intercourse and the usage of spermicide-containing products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ladies, enjoy your sexual intimacy and save the running to the bathroom for when your bladder is full.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago it was believed that voiding (urinating) before and after having intercourse will guard against developing a urinary tract infection (UTI), sending women running in and out of bathrooms at a frantic pace. But was it urine in the system that caused the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,338],"tags":[],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womentc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}