An MP has described the “weak and painful” experience of living with an old urinary tract infection (UTI).

Labor MP Elison Gardner gave a emotional speech in the Westminster Hall debate for Stoke-on-Truce South, which he said that he considering the removal of his bladder at one point.

Speaking through tears, Gardner asked for better recognition and treatment for chronic UTI.

“I am confident that it is still another case of how the medical condition of women can be misunderstood, researched and reduced,” she said.

UTIs are bacterial infections that can affect the bladder, urethra, or kidneys.

Gardner said that she often trusted the bag of frozen peas to relieve pain, but said that in the debate, some women had described pouring scaling water on their feet to distract themselves.

“It’s really unpleasant,” Gardner told the BBC. “When you urinate, you burn, prick.”

Gardner said that most people knew what a UTI was, severe and old infections felt the victims that they were on “fire”.

“Something strange about pain is because it also finds you mentally,” he explained.

“You can’t just think and it all gets-away. It is a badly found that you feel that you cannot move forward.”

MPs are suffering from menopause-induced UTI for more than a decade, but said the “dipstick” test is commonly used to diagnose infection, it was not enough sensitive.

Only when someone has a “fierce” UTI, he said, action was taken and yet, the prescribed antibiotics were not enough to make it completely clear.

“So you are in this loop of infections, where it eventually becomes embedded and old,” he said.

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