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To: Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP; Wes Streeting MP
My INCONTINENCE COSTS me in EMBARRASSMENT and MONEY
There are 6 million people in the UK suffering from bladder incontinence and more than 2.5 million people over 60 in the UK suffering from some degree of urinary incontinence.
Low level support is offered by the NHS.
This support is not enough to maintain dignity and respect, avoid interruption and embarrassment, provide urine security and comfort, when using the free pads and pants currently available.
As functioning members of society we are requesting that the range of pads and pants commercially available be funded by government/nhs to enable incontinence sufferers to remain fully in society.
Why is this important?
This has always been an issue. Current rising costs in every other area of life leaves little or no room for personal health care costs.
If you cannot afford to buy the more effective and secure incontinence wear available you will have to fall back on the NHS free product selection. Pads that require a net to hold them in place and which do not secure leak prevention, and cotton pull-ups, of which you get four, and that don't hold as much as the insecure pads. These pull up pants will leak without warning.
Would you want to be thinking, all day every day, that you maybe about to soak leg wear/trousers and become the source of everyone's embarrassment.
Its horrendous. You really don't want to be that person.
However I am that person. I have soiled my bed so many times. I have been 'caught out' when a larger urinary discharge overflows from pad to clothes. Once you have 'wet' yourself it soon becomes obvious to all around you, the smell, the look, the wet foot prints that follow you to a safer dark corner.
And, you still have to get home!
There are far better products out there, but currently they have to be purchased. They are not cheap but, here's the rub, they are manufactured to work efficiently at retention and leak prevention, in other words THEY WORK.
Help me, and every one like me, whether they be older or younger than 60, regain some dignity, reduce daily anxiety and improve immeasurably the quality and value of life.
