ITV Lorraine doctor says women 'blindsided' by three little known symptoms

The ITV doc has urged radical to deliberation astir whether they whitethorn truly person a UTI oregon not.

Dr Amir Khan, a regular connected ITV's Lorraine, has suggested that recurring toilet symptoms whitethorn not needfully bespeak a UTI. Speaking connected the amusement contiguous (October 16), the wellness adept advised viewers to halt requesting antibiotics from their doctors and instead, inquire for cream.

The doc revealed astir 30 millions radical crossed the UK presently endure from symptoms of the menopause oregon are menopausal oregon peri-menopausal. With it being World Menopause day, Dr Khan said that galore women consciousness they are "completely blindsided by their symptoms" with 41% accidental they consciousness "lonely and discarded astatine the clip of the menopause" with the doc informing that determination is "a batch of enactment to beryllium done erstwhile it comes to dealing with the menopause."

The menopause is defined arsenic 12 consecutive months without having a play and is caused erstwhile determination is simply a earthy diminution successful your enactment hormones produced by the ovaries which is called oestrogen. "You tin get it done aesculapian attraction oregon surgical attraction that impact your ovaries - that’s called a aesculapian oregon surgical menopause", helium explains.

"Now the peri-menopause is the clip starring up to menopause. It tin commencement arsenic aboriginal arsenic your 30s and arsenic precocious arsenic your 50s and it's the diminution successful oestrogen", helium adds. The mode symptoms hap though is not linear and is described arsenic a "roller coaster of hormones which impact different hormones". Some of the hormones impacted tin power your temper truthful you get "fluctuations of things similar irregular period, temper swings, blistery hot flushes. But they travel and spell and you deliberation 'am I successful menopause? Am I not?' and it’s due to the fact that of these fluctuations."

Talking astir the lesser known symptoms, helium says that determination are 50, if not more, antithetic symptoms you tin spell done and "some of the ones that women travel and speech to maine astir that we don’t speech capable astir is thing called Genital Urinary Syndrome.

"So 1 of the jobs of oestrogen is to support the tegument of the vagina and vulva bully and plump, brushed and moist and erstwhile oestrogen levels spell down, the vagina becomes precise adust and we telephone it atrophy and that I tin springiness you an itchy vagina, symptom during intercourse. But 1 of the communal symptoms is urinary symptoms truthful you’re going to the toilet more."

With symptoms similar stinging erstwhile you are connected the toilet and needing to spell much and more, these overlapping symptoms tin beryllium mistaken for a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) by ourselves and adjacent GPs. Because of this, radical are simply and often prescribed antibiotics to wide the infection. "They’re [GPs] not treating the underlying cause. So if you’re getting recurrent UTIs spell and spot your doc and inquire for Oestrogen cream. That’s what you request to enactment down there, plump of the vagina vulva more, little UTIs, little sore vaginas - that’s what we want."