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Adapted from the article by LaFarge Bill shook the sleep out of his eyes and sat up as he reached for the ringing phone early on Sunday a.m. - earlier than he had planned to get up. "Hello." Bill went to the bathroom, and as he was returning to the bedroom, the phone rang again. He answered and the person on the other end gave the following story: He and a friend had been playing the night before, using a small rubber tube which had been boiled and used as a urethral catheter, slipping it up the penis through the opening in the end (the urethral meatus) and into the bladder. Evidently his partner had been jacking off with the tube in place and as a result had "lost" it. Further questioning revealed that it had disappeared up into the penis and at the time of the call the person had normal urinary control. Bill's knowledge of male anatomy made apparent to him that the tube had slipped all the way into the bladder, as the sphincter muscles which control urination lie at the base of the bladder. The description of the length of the tube indicated that it was too long to rest below these sphincters without protruding from the end of the penis. (The entire urethra is only about twelve inches long, or less.) If it were not completely in the bladder, the tube would be holding the sphincters open, eliminating any control over urination Bill advised the caller to get his friend to and emergency room, as the presence of the tube in the bladder could cause serious bladder irritation and/or infection, and there was little if any hope that it would come out by itself. No one ever heard what the outcome of the visit to the emergency room was. DiscussionThe moral of this story is "Never use any makeshift equipment." A catheter made for urethral insertion has a specially shaped, rounded end for insertion, which is meant to insure against trauma to the delicate tissues of the urethra. The other end is too large to enter the urethra. The use of such a catheter would have avoided this problem completely. Many people believe that boiling is an appropriate method of sterilizing such things as catheters. Boiling is not guaranteed to kill viruses or spore-forming bacteria. The only methods which will kill all known micro-organisms are gas sterilization with ethylene oxide and the use of steam under pressure - at least 15 pounds for 30 minutes. Very few of us have access to gas sterilization. The reuse of catheters is NOT RECOMMENDED! Heat from steam sterilization (15 pounds of pressure can be obtained in many home pressure cookers which will sterilize, and is acceptable for metal instruments such as sounds and dilators) deteriorates latex and rubber. Catheters should be used directly from their original sterile packages. Use them once and discard! NOTE: Used catheters may be "bleached’ to sanitize them and then they can be used for many other purposed OTHER THAN reinserting into the urethra. There is debate as to how safe it is to ejaculate (cum) with any object occupying the urethra, due to the pressures and muscle contractions present at the time of ejaculation. The conservative practitioner would have avoided this possibility. Source for: Catheters, Sounds, and related supplies |
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