All About Catheters

A catheter is a little tube which you can put into your bladder when you need to do a wee and it will get the wee out for you.

ISC is short for ‘Intermittent Self Catheterisation’. It means emptying your bladder by yourself regularly with the help of a little tube called a catheter.

Catheters help you to get your wee out when your bladder and your brain are not able to talk to each other to tell you when to do a wee.

Catheters are good because:

• They protect your tummy from getting poorly from having too much wee inside
• They reduce the number of UTIs, which are infections that can make you poorly
• They stop you weeing yourself when you don’t want to
• LoFric is a special catheter which is all slippery, this means that it’s easy to put in and take out and it won’t hurt