‘Hug’ Hormone For Treating Cystitis

Hug Hormone oxytocin – Potent combatant for cystitis

Cystitis treatment just took a revolutionary turn with a whiff of the so-dubbed ‘hug’ hormone –Oxytocin that is being used.

Scientists are employing a nasal spray of oxytocin hormone for treating women ailing from interstitial cystitis, or continual bladder wall inflammation. The trial follows the assessment that symptoms mostly subsided considerably in those women that breastfed. The level of oxytocin that is a hormone secreted by the pituitary gland is believed to play an imperative role during child delivery. During that time, oxytocin not just stimulates the womb contractions during labour, but additionally educes milk production as the child starts suckling.

During the course of the trial conducted at the University of Alabama, fifty women that experienced symptoms of cystitis on a regular basis would be administered a single spray of the oxytocin hormone in both the nostrils.

The levels of pain they experienced would be closely observed at a time interval of six hours and twenty-four hours following the use of the nasal spray. These women would then be required to maintain a diary to keep tabs on their symptoms.

It is believed that the hormone possesses palliative and anti-inflammatory effects. Unlike other cystitis types, interstitial cystitis is not considered to be caused due to bacteria and hence could not be cured with antibiotics.

Though anyone could contract cystitis, adult women are widely affected due to this. Majority of women suffer from at least a single attack during the course of their lifespan.

In few women, cystitis is a rare occurrence while in others it is known to occur 4-5 times annually. It is commonly observed among women that are sexually active, in pregnant women and subsequent to menopause.

Patients could have the condition lasting for protracted periods of time, when abruptly it is observed to subside – only to relapse days or months later.

The condition seems to deteriorate among women during the onset of their menstrual cycle and could be aggravated due to underlying stress.

Treatments offered are aimed at curbing the symptoms that could comprise of pain experienced in the abdomen, bladder and pelvic area, blood emitted in urine, urine appearing cloudy or having a foul smell, pain during intercourse, pain radiating directly above the pubic bone and recurrent urination – at times occurring nearly sixty times during a single day. Elderly women might show no symptoms except for weakness, felling befuddled, fever or falls.

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