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How can I control the odor from female incontinence due to stroke?


my elderly wife has suffered several small strokes which left her with excessive incontinence. Have not found anything on-line to control the odor.

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Have her incontinence pads changed more often and an odor should not build up.

I am sorry you are dealing with this. You are a great husband. I don't have any personal experience other then my husbands grandparents. The only thing that I know that helps is to change the incontinence pads often.

Some change in diet may help her. Some foodstuffs give bad odour to urine. Try to find out and avoid those.Good luck!

Could it be that she has a urinary tract infection? This will usually cause an offencive or ammonia type smell and also increase the amount of times that your wife passes urine.
Can you can get her to pass a small amount of urine into the toilet and the rest of the stream into a sterile container (bought from the chemist)? This you can take to your doctor or Community Health nurse for testing. She may require antibiotics.
There are some good products available for incontinence i.e "Kylie sheet' that has super absorbency and fits over the bed.
'Depend' has absorbency type gel cells. These are napkins that provide about 6-8 hours absorbency. It is rec commended however that you frequently change pads and wash and dry the perineum area (front to back).
Have your wife drink about 2 litres water a day. You can purchase urinary alkalisers i.e 'Ural' from the chemist or make her up a sodium bicarb drink, being about a teasoon in a glass of water.
If you can try to toilet your wife every 2-3 hours. If she is able to practise pelvic floor exercises than this can help with incontinence also.
Cranberry juice is also helpful with UTI's.
Keeping perfumes away from that area is advisable sinse these can irritate and further exacebate infections.
I wish you all the very best in your endeavours. Alison

I am sorry about your wife's condition.
I would say that she ought to avoid/lessen intake of sulfur-containing degradation products (e.g. ammonia, thiols & thioesthers)

Also, some of the constituents of asparagus are metabolized and are excreted in the urine, giving it a distinctive, pungent odor (I am not saying that she ought to avoid eating asparagus but asparagus contributes odor from urine).
Note: Asparagus rhizomes & roots are used to treat certain Urinary Tract Infections as well as kidney & bladder stones.

Intake of lots of fluid would avoid the strong ammonia odor of the urine (but you would need to replace pads/catheters more often).

I hope this will help. :)

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