Hi!

My mum has been in hospital for two weeks - initially due to an anaemia result on a blood test : her GP thought she was going into A&E for a blood transfusion.

While there, they first discovered AKI (Acute Kidney Injury) and she was put on liquid drip after liquid drip. That seemed to help her - especially as she had been constipated for 2 weeks before that.

Bladder cancer has been confirmed - we suspected that was what she had.

She’s not allowed to be discharged until she has opened her bowels which (now she is off the fluid drip), she is not able to do. She’s had an enema and Lactulose and nothing is happening.

HOWEVER, my biggest concern is that her mouth and tongue and throat are all so dry that she cannot talk or even drink water until she has had Oralieve Spray sprayed into her mouth! She needs a squirt into the roof of her mouth and onto her tongue and both sides. Then she can sip a little cold tea. Then she can speak. She can’t eat much - certainly nothing dry.

Does bladder cancer - or any cancer that bladder cancer can develop into as it metastasises - cause this level of dehydration?

Is it dehydration?

Grateful for any and all informed comments!

Harry