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BOTOX IS MOST frequently thought of as a product that is used to freeze wrinkles, but it has other uses too.
Now Botox (botulinum toxin type A) has been licensed by the Irish Medicines Board in Ireland for the management of urinary incontinence in adults with neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO) resulting from neurogenic bladder due to stable sub-cervical spinal cord injury (SCI), or multiple sclerosis (MS).
This is described as “a key milestone in bringing this innovative treatment to people” living with MS or SCI who have urinary leakage (incontinence), and provides them with a long-term solution for bladder control.
Targeted injections of Botox into the bladder muscle can reduce involuntary bladder contractions, which MS and SCI patients often suffer from, and this in turn can reduce incontinence episodes.
In Ireland, more than 7,000 people live with MS and nearly 52 people are diagnosed with SCI every year.
Between 60 – 80 per cent of people with MS and 75 – 80 per cent of people with SCI will suffer from a bladder dysfunction including urinary incontinence.
This can lead to embarrassment, low self esteem, depression and loss of independence, or even ulcers, skin irritation and kidney failure.
Robert Flynn, consultant urologist at Tallaght Hospital and The National Rehabilitation Hospital commented:
Historically, the management of urinary incontinence due to NDO has relied on daily medications. However, bladder control is often not achieved with these treatments due to lack of efficacy, poor compliance and adverse events. Now, BOTOX injections, given every 8-10 months into the bladder, means that I have a new treatment option to help my patients get this debilitating condition under control. Being able to better control and manage bladder function can be life-changing for patients.
Ireland is the location for the global manufacture of Botox.
Side effects of Botox being used to treat urinary incontinence can include urinary tract infections or inability to empty the bladder.
The company says the treatment “was generally well-tolerated” in the majority of patients in its clinical trial programme.
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I think we are approaching the perfect storm in Ireland. Everything is falling apart all at once. Property prices, rents, underpaid public workers now all striking at once. Increasing childcare costs, no support for the government… what a time to be in FG!!
Public sector needs reform with the disbanding of unions and professional contracts for our teachers and guards that are not linked to tenure. On the housing front we need high rise in certain areas of Dublin.
What’s with you and teachers? You have an agenda as you’ve nothing good to say on them or their profession. Some of the largest class sizes in Europe and new entrants paid pittance, that together with rising house prices and ridiculous rents means a husband and wife teacher or guard cannot even think of buying in Dublin or the commuter belt and hope to start a family. But go ahead, those bad teachers and your agenda.
Underpaid Public workers?
Hi rise is that because there is land shortage or just maximising developers pockets
James, out of curiosity which ” certain” areas in Dublin are most suited to high rise buildings ?
Hi=high
@Catherine Mc: The areas that aren’t anywhere near him?
Daisy, that is what I was thinking.
James, you must be a secondary school drop out. Don’t be ashamed of it.
@Shawn, THEIR INCREASING WORKLOAD WOULD ONLY MEAN ONE THING..,YES THEY’RE INDEED UNDERPAID!
Let’s keep the recovery going.
I do wish people would stop coming out with ‘The government must do/act……’. The government are not going to do a damned thing except throw out some soundbites and bide their time til they’re thrown out, FF will come in, do the same (as in nothing), get thrown and it’ll be FGs turn again. And so it goes…
James Darcy: yeah, lets make conditions even worse for workers in your thatcherite dreamland. That’ll solve homelessness alright
I have been looking for a place for someone with 2 kids. She can not go over 1,400 that’s the max that she can go. No where to be found. The ones that she has looked at and applied for have gone or they wont take rent allowance. Horrible thinking that you and your kids are going to be homeless. Great place we live in (sigh)
All our professional people are leaving this country – Our Garda, our teachers, our doctors and nurses Ireland will be even more strained in the coming years that we will have no one to fill these positions and we won’t have to worry about unions or pay structures.
You’ve just got to love Ireland!
Successive governments have failed this country. Nothing has changed over the last 10 years. What an opportunity we had to redistribute the wealth, but successive FF and FG governments facilitated making the rich richer and the poor poorer. The current govt are on the payroll of lobbyists too. Ireland is no better off than it was in 2006. Despite whatever spin they tell you, the future is more uncertain than ever…..
Someone is making a fortune on the backs of others.
Ireland is a failed society where 1 income is insufficient to put a roof over your head.
Call for Referendum on “Right2Home” in Ireland … amend Constitution like Germany.
https://www.change.org/p/referendum-on-right2home-in-ireland
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