Things You Didn’t Know About UTIs

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a urinary tract infection

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The pandemic is making it harder to diagnose and treat them

Have you tried getting a pap smear via Zoom? Or handing a urine sample through your computer screen? It’s not happening, and if it were to, it would probably make doctors super uncomfortable. But Plotch mentioned that, due to the pandemic and most non-urgent medical visits being moved to the virtual space, there’s an issue of women being over-diagnosed or misdiagnosed with a UTI. You may be one of the many individuals who is just going for a self-diagnosis right now because you don’t want to go anywhere near a potentially COVID-infested hospital. Because of this pandemic problem, the Stix founders knew that a safer, at-home diagnostic product was important.

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