Ketamine Bladder Damage in Children: Inside the NHS Clinic Now Seeing a New Case Every Week
Ketamine bladder damage in children has gone from a rare diagnosis to a weekly occurrence at one Liverpool hospital, and the doctors treating it say the numbers still surprise them. Prof Rachel Isba runs the clinic at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, the only service in the UK built specifically around this condition. She says most of the children who come through her door didn't set out looking for medical help, they came because something in their body stopped working the way it used to. Bedwetting that wouldn't stop. Sudden, painful trips to the bathroom, sometimes too late to make it. Blood in the urine. Some describe passing what feels like a piece of tissue, which turns out to be part of the bladder's own lining breaking down.
The clinic opened in May last year, but the ...