Foley Catheter Care For Men
You will be going home with a tube in your bladder called a Foley catheter. In order to prevent
infection you must keep your catheter clean and drink plenty of liquids (at least two to three
quarts per day, unless you have a heart or kidney condition at which point you should contact your physician). Here are some instructions for care at home.
Cleaning
Twice a day (in the morning and evening), use soap and water to clean the end of your penis
and catheter. Clean off any mucus or crusts. Be sure to pull back your foreskin and clean
around it if needed.
Leg Bag Instructions
You have been given a leg bag to wear that fits comfortably under your clothing. Attached to
your catheter, this bag should allow you to move freely without anyone knowing you have a
catheter. You have been given two leg bags so that you can use one while cleaning the other.
• Gather your supplies:
Blue clamp
Alcohol pad
Tape
Leg bag with extension tubing already attached
• Wash your hands with soap and water.
• Remove the tape at the joint of the catheter (tube) and bag.
• Remember to wipe all connection with the alcohol swab.
• Clamp your catheter above the bag using the blue clamp.
• Remove the big bag and attach the leg bag. Make sure the leg bag is in upright position, below
your thigh. This will favor urinary drainage.
• Tape the connections with clear tape and remove the blue clamp.
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• Position the leg bag for best comfort, making sure the tubing is not kinked.
• Finally, empty the big (overnight) bag and clean the end with alcohol and store for next use.
Securing the catheter to your leg.
Supplies :
• Statlock Foley - Catheter Securement Device.
• Find a position on your leg to secure the catheter so you will be comfortable both sitting and
walking, and so the catheter will not become kinked.
• If you have a lot of body hair, shave that patch of your skin.
• Apply skin protectant to clean, dry skin. Allow drying before applying bandage.
• Place security device on your dry skin where you want to secure the catheter.
• Secure the catheter to the Device as demonstrated to you by your nurse to prevent the tube
from being pulled out.
Cleaning the Bag:
• Wash your hands with soap and water.
• Empty all the urine from the bag into the toilet.
• Fill the empty urine bag with one pint of cold tap water from top tubing. (If it is a leg bag fill it
through its connector and extension tubing: if it is a bed bag fill it through its top tubing.)
• Vigorously shake the water in the bag for slow count to ten.
• Empty the water out though the bags drainage spigot into the toilet.
• Repeat above instructions twice.
• Use an irrigating bottle to squirt approximately 1 oz of the premixed bleach solution into the bag.
• Swish the bleach solution around in the bag while you slowly count to 30 make sure the bleach
touches all of the inner surfaces of the bag.
• Drain the bleach solution into the toilet.
• Hang the bag on the bathroom hook and allow to air dry till next use.
Note for mixing solution:
Use liquid bleach: Purex, Clorox, or generic non- perfumed bleach containing 5.25 %
Sodium Hypochlorite, fill irrigating bottle with 5 oz of cold tap water and add one-half oz
liquid bleach, invert the bottle to mix well.
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Call your Doctor if:
• You have a fever, chills, flank (lower back) pain
• The tube stops draining
• Persistent bloody urine
• Urine leaks from you urethra (between your legs of through your penis)
• You have severe bladder spasms (a feeling like you have to urinate)
• Your urine turns cloudy and /or bad smelling.
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