Lyths in Uganda

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Saturday 7 November 2009

11 year-old Judith


As well as the girl with the displaced ureter made dry another sad girl aged 11 came to the camp. She complained of daily unconscious leakage of faeces and frequent leakage of urine both day and night for 2 years. She was an outcast. After careful questioning and examination I felt she had a muscular inco-ordination (sphincter instability) which might respond to retraining of muscles. Judith’s T shirt caption reads ’Quick repairs 24 hours’, but it took 3 weeks of daily instruction and eventual co-operation before she became became completely dry. Big smiles!