Why aren't we talking about this: UTIs

“Women, it's older women, and then it's urine- it’s the triple yuck”

This is probably the most important conversation that I have had this year. I can not express how crucial it is that we change the whole narrative around this.

50% of women will experience them, 30% will have recurring infections and 30% of sepsis deaths in women started as a UTI. The scale of the issue blows my mind.

Millions of women a year are suffering, yet generic antibiotics, lack of education and embarrassment are meaning that no one is talking about this. I want to change that.

This week on ‘Why Aren’t We Talking About This’, I am speaking to Kath Church all about UTIs.

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Why Aren’t We Talking About This? is a series of honest conversations about the stuff we rarely discuss but probably should - big feelings, weird thoughts, life, death, and all the messy, beautiful parts of being human.

Hosted by me, Carly Osman-Holme, on a quest to dodge a full-blown existential crisis. I’ve reached that point in life where I’m asking the big questions: How did I get here? What do I actually want? And why didn’t they teach us any of this in school?