Cystitis
Useful contacts
WellBeing is a
not-for-profit organization that funds research into obstetrics
and gynaecology. It publishes helpful information leaflets,
including ‘Cystitis’, which you can
download from its website; go to the ‘Reproductive
health information’ section of the site. You can also
order leaflets by post (send an sae). Write to: 27 Sussex
Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4SP, UK. Tel: 020
7772 6400.
www.wellbeing.org.uk
National Kidney
and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse is
a US government organization. It has clear information
about cystitis and interstitial cystitis on its website.
Write to: 3 Information Way, Bethesda, MD 20892-3580, USA.
Tel: 001 800 891 5390.
www.kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/uti_ez/index.htm
Cystitis and
Overactive Bladder Foundation is a UK not-for-profit
organization. Write to: 76 High Street, Stony Stratford,
Bucks MK11 1AH, UK. Tel: 01908 569169.
www.cobfoundation.org
Interstitial
Cystitis Association (ICA) is a US not-for-profit
organization that gives information and funds research
on interstitial cystitis; its website is very comprehensive
(and even includes a cookery section). Write to: 110 North
Washington Street – Suite 340,
Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
www.ichelp.com
The American
Academy of Family Physicians has a factsheet
about interstitial cystitis on its website.
www.aafp.org/afp/20011001/1212ph.html
The Society
of Health Sexual Advisers has information about
visiting a genitourinary medicine clinic on its website as
well as a list of the clinics in the UK and Ireland, and
a link to a list of clinics in the USA.
http://www.ssha.info/public/clinics/locations.asp
BUPA (a UK private healthcare provider)
has a good cystitis factsheet on its website.
http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/cystitis.html