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IPSS App. Compare symptoms over time

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iUFlow is a bladder diary and IPSS app. Add Benign Prostate Enlargement (BPH) tracking ability to your best bladder diary app.

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IPSS Questionnaire doctor reading results

Urology IPSS Prostate Score: BPH Symptoms Score. Calculate International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) in patients with prostate enlargement. Especially benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). IPSS is based on the answers of seven questions. Mainly focusing on urinary symptoms severity and quality of life.

Easily share the results with your doctor

Enlarged Prostate? Prostate cancer or BPH ? What can help your doctor to decide? Urine flow test and symptoms.

After completing a short questionnaire in the app. The score is added to the bladder diary and charts. Voiding diary and IPSS app make it easy for the healthcare provider to track the symptoms, in the app or portal.

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Physicians can use the information in the IPSS questionnaire to help increase quality of life for patients by providing customized treatment. Easily get a full picture of your bladder. Get iUFlow to track and monitor urological symptoms, as weak urinary stream, incomplete emptying, prostate enlargment, volume and other urinary tract symptoms. The recommended practice is to complete IPSS questionnaire once a month. Like that, your doctor can track and compare the results. Using the records as snapshots of your symptoms.

IPSS app quality of life questionnaire on Android
IPSS app on iPhone

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iUFlow is available for free in the App Store and Google Play.

Enlarged Prostate?? Prostate Cancer? BPH? IPSS App

What happens in case that the prostate enlarges? Self-Assessment

Do I need to undergo a prostate removal or radiation therapy?

The prostate commonly gets larger after the age of 45 to 50. Because the prostate is very close to the urethra, an enlarged prostate usually presses and affect the normal flow of urine. In other words, it can lead to obstruction. 

What else you need to know on BPH 

Incomplete Emptying. Over the last month, how often have you had a sensation of not emptying your bladder completely after you finished urinating?
Frequency. During the last month, how often have you had to urinate again less than 2 hours after you finished urinating?
Intermittency. During the last month, how often have you found you stopped and started again several times when you urinated?
Urgency. During the last month, how often have you found it difficult to postpone urination?
Weak Stream. During the last month, how often have you had a weak urinary stream?
Straining. During the last month, how often have you had to push or strain to begin urination?
Sleeping. During the last month, how many times did you most typically get up to urinate from the time you went to bed at night until the time you got up in the morning?

Install iUFlow app on your iPhone or Android for free. no ads. Apple app Store and Play Store.

What you should know about Prostate Cancer?

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Enlarged Prostate? Prostate cancer or BPH ? What can help your doctor to decide? Urine flow test and symptoms.

What is the most common cancer in men? Prostate Cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australian men. There are more than 20,000 diagnoses and almost 3,300 deaths each year.

What is the prostate? Where is the prostate?

Your prostate is a small walnut-sized gland inside your body, just below your bladder. It has a big impact on your urinary system. The prostate surrounds the urethra (- the tube carries urine to your bladder). This is the reason that changes to the prostate often lead to changes in bladder and bowel health.

Enlarged Prostate? Prostate Cancer?

What occurs when the prostate enlarges?

The prostate commonly gets bigger after the age of 45 to 50. While the prostate is so close to the urethra, an enlarged prostate usually presses and affect the normal flow of urine. In other words, it can lead to obstruction. 

Some men notice a trouble urinating or necessitate to urinate more frequently. While others won’t feel any changes. In case you observe any alterations to your bladder and bowel habits, you should check in with a physician to rule out other things. 
Prostate enlargement on its own is oftentimes diagnosed as BPH (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia). It isn’t cancer and won’t turn into cancer. Your Urologist can work with you and may recommend lifestyle changes such as reducing caffeine or alcohol, or eating less spicy and acidic food.

Prostate Cancer – the most commonly diagnosed cancer for men

Prostate cancer is cancer that occurs in the prostate. It is the most common cancer for men. It has a close link to incontinence and many men find incontinence one of the hardest parts to handle after prostate cancer treatment. 

Most men with early prostate cancer don’t have alterations that they notice. Signs of prostate cancer most oftentimes show up in more advanced stages, as the cancer grows.

If you’re suffering from symptoms like: painful urination, cloudy urine or blood in your urine > these are clearly a sign to call for help.

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What Are the Five Warning Signs of Prostate Cancer?

  • A painful and/or burning sensation during urination.
  • Frequent micturition, particularly at night.
  • Trouble stopping and/or starting urination.
  • Sudden erectile dysfunction.
  • Blood in urine and/or semen.

Over the years, there was great progress for surviving cancer. In many men, it can be a slow growing cancer. As mentioned, urinary symptoms, as above, are more common in the later stages of prostate cancer.

What is the treatment?

In general, the treatments for PC are mainly removing the prostate by surgery and radiation therapy.

The pelvic floor muscles and a ring of muscles near the bladder (bladder neck sphincter) can be affected. Their role is to allow urine to flow out by opening and closing. Men suffer from urinary incontinence in case that these muscles are damaged during prostate surgery. In addition, radiation therapy can also cause incontinence, sometimes many years later.

Today, we know that it is better to prepare your pelvic floor before prostate cancer treatment. Incontinence after prostate surgery will usually get improved with time. For instance, Pelvic floor exercises (e.g. Kegel) and continence professionals are very effective in helping incontinence. Most men get back bladder control in 6 months to a year. A consistent physical therapy can make a big difference in terms of an after surgery incontinence.

iuflow report read by doctor bph diagnosis

Your doctor or PT interested in data on your bladder – in the form of a bladder diary and a flow test. This can make the process to be much shorter and more precise. In conclusion, it is important to see your doctor and conduct a flow test.

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Check out the iUFlow app and get an iUFlow PRO urine flow monitoring device

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  1. Track your bladder with the iUFlow app and iUFlow PRO urine flow meter
  2. Be active. Physical activity can prevent you from retaining urine.
  3. Visit your doctor

A post for the Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

Do-It-Yourself uroflowmetry – A better way of collecting uroflow data.

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A comparison of Do-It-Yourself uroflowmetry (DIY), e.g. an in-home uroflometry (uroflow), with traditional, in-clinic uroflowmetry.

Mombelli et al presented a study that compares home uroflowmetry to the traditional commonly used uroflow.

The assessment of urine flow rate dates back to the 1950s…
There is nothing new in Lower urinary tract symptoms, prostate volume and uroflow.

The title of the study: Free uroflowmetry versus “Do-It-Yourself” uroflowmetry in the assessment of patients with lower urinary tract symptoms.

To sum it up: together with the international Prostatic Symptom Score (IPSS), home uroflow is a good estimate of the results of uroflowmetry. In other words, it enables unnecessary hospital investigations to be avoided.

Read the full study at PubMed

How long does a uroflow take?

The procedure usually takes about half an hour. According to the availability in your region, the test is typically performed in a hospital or a physician’s office. Your doctor may ask you to repeat the process in case the results are not valid. In other words, you’ll have to drink until you fill your bladder, then wait a while and measure again.

Can a stopwatch and a liquid container replace the conventional uroflow machine? Mombelli et al published the paper in 2014, a few years have passed, and it seems that urologists still prefer precise data. Uroflow is no longer limited to only the hospitals and clinics that have the technology.

The stopwatch, DIY, method provides a very general idea of the bladder state. However, home uroflow is a better way to obtain (multiple) flow readings. To clarify, it has the potential to combat problems inherent to clinic-based flow tests.

Likewise, there are several studies that show the use of low cost home devices to measure flow rate. But there is no need to compromise where it comes to health or test accuracy. With iUFlow you can measure and monitor your urine flow at home and turn it into valuable data. The data helps doctors to easily diagnose and treat urinary tract conditions. The device is lightweight and portable. There is no need to touch or write down urination volume.

A flow test calculates the speed of urine flow over time.

Just place iUFlow device on the toilet bowl under the seat, make sure it’s stable with all 3 flaps touching the bowl. And that’s it. The next step is urinate into it and flush. It will quickly and accurately measure the flow and total volume.

The results will sync into your iPhone or Android. On your smartphone, turn on Bluetooth and start iUFlow app. In addition, your doctor can view the flow rate outcomes on their computer screen.

iUFlow clinician dahsboard

By viewing the dashboard, your doctor can now assess your treatment with real-time data and get constant feedback from your bladder. And to even monitor or determine the need for treatment. A great use of this valuable data is by comparison. For example, before and after drug like alpha blocker for instance in the case of BPH. Urine Flow Rate Detector or Home Uroflow can be valuable as well for the monitoring of other situations. For example, OAB, USD.

Further reading, Maximum Urine Flow Rate of Less than 15ml/Sec…

What is the best Do-It-Yourself uroflowmetry? Some benefits of flow test @Home:

  • Use it anywhere, not just hospitals or clinics
  • Accuracy
  • Patients tested from home, saving travel time and expense
  • Paperless
  • Healthcare provider gets results directly
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Is low Qmax value a sign of obstruction? Why is my urine stream weaker? do I need a bladder app?

How to get the test results of iUFlow? Does it measure volume and Qmax?

Both Volume and Qmax are recorded, of course. iUFlow syncs the result to iUFlow Voiding Diary app (free and on both Android® and Apple®). And the same for iUFlow dashboard. So, your physician can interpret the results even at the same moment that the measurement takes place.

Contact us for more information. Or with any question about interpretation of your test results.

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An app for your Bladder? What’s #3 Bladder Diary apps (TOP 2022 compare)

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Are you after a Bladder diary app? There’s an app for everything today. And of course, there are various apps for UTI, Overactive bladder, incontinence and Nocturia. Here is a short review of the top five you can install on your iPhone or Android.

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There are various apps for Notcutira Polyuria, Urge, incontinence and lower urinary tract symptoms. Often recommended by PT and GP.

AndroidBest iOS Diary app
Top. Best Bladder Diary Apps
not iUFlow calendar
Miction Calendar – diary ⭐⭐⭐ 3.3

Calendario Micción – Miction Calendar. Allows you to keep a detailed diary of urination on your smartphone. So you can note down it anywhere, anytime, no need to use papers.

Voiding diary
Voiding Diary for your bladder ⭐⭐⭐ 3.6

With this diary you will be able to record your daily liquid intakes, voids, leaks of urine and pad changes for three days. Having finished the records for the three days, you can send the report to your doctor via email.

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Bladder Diary by iUFlow ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.8

Kesem Health. Medical. Free & No ads.

An easy and effective way to log your daily activity. This version of iUFlow Premium is Free and Unlimited, allowing you to impress your doctor with detailed data about your bladder activity. (Important: you don’t need to buy the iUFlow uroflow in order to use this freemium)

With the app, you can record intake and output (urine) to track bladder activities, as well as recording bowel movement – poo – using a Bristol chart (to track normal, constipation, diarrhea etc). It is also a perfect digestive tracker and poo journal.

Keep track of your bladder and bowel movements easily on your mobile, then easily share the diary with your doctor. A complete urine log or a bathroom log is a basic source of data for treatment.

You can also use the Bladder Diary App as a comfortable water/pee reminder during the time of completing your electronic bladder diary.

A detailed bladder diary may be important and useful for health issues related to kidneys, sleep behaviors, the cardiovascular system, prostate enlargement, urinary incontinence, and Lower Urinary Tract symptoms (LUTS). Should I buy a new phone in order to use the bladder diary app? Probably no.

person holding iUFlow urine diary. Free & no ads.

Available for Android and Apple mobile devices (iPhone and iPad)

New: Urology IPSS Prostate Score: BPH Symptoms Score. Calculate IPSS in patients with prostate enlargement, for example, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Above all, the IPSS questionnaire computes the answers of seven questions concerning urinary symptoms and quality of life. To sum up, your total score is completing the bladder diary information and charts, making it easy for your doctor to learn on your state.

🥉 We’re a bit biased, but we think the best solution is the one we created. We are glad that thousands of users with ~1000 reviews agree with us.

“I’ve been looking for this diary app for iPhone ever since I’ve been peeing a lot more often lately, but I still don’t know why, I had problems with bed-wetting as a kid and I still leak a bit, or I may even leak a lot, I still wet the bed, occasionally, and this allows me to keep a log” ★★★★★

Learn more on tracking your voiding habits with iUFlow bladder diary app. Please contact us with any question.