Your Foley catheter is a thin, flexible tube placed through your urethra (the small tube that carries urine from your bladder to outside your body) and into your bladder. Your Foley catheter drains your urine (pee). It’s held inside your bladder by a balloon filled with water.
A Foley catheter is used to drain urine in situations where you can’t urinate on your own. Catheters are helpful if you have urinary retention, during surgeries and hospitalizations, or if you are bedbound. Risks of having a Foley catheter inserted include infection, trauma, and discomfort. Andrii Pohranychnyi/iStock via Getty ImagesA Foley catheter is a common type of indwelling catheter. It has soft, plastic or rubber tube that is inserted into the bladder to drain the urine. In most cases, your provider will use the smallest catheter that is appropriate. There are 3 main types of catheters: Indwelling catheter; Condom catheter; Intermittent self-catheter
Ultrasound image of a Foley catheter. In urology, a Foley catheter is a brand name for one of many brands of urinary catheters (UC). Foleys and their namesakes are indwelling UC, often referred to as an IDCs (sometimes IDUCs) or the alternative type being an in/out catheters (with only a single tube and no valves, designed to go into the . 391 372 224 29 203 351 330 251 2