Teaching Intermittent Self‐catheterization to Young Children with Myelodysplasia

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Abstract
A new technique is described which enables children with neurogenic bladder secondary to myelodysplasia to learn self-catheterization prior to their school years. Inexpensive dolls, complete with male or female genitalia, and a specially designed mirror to magnify the female children''s genitalia, were used with 4 children (3 girls, 1 boy) with mental ages of 5 yr. Each child successfully demonstrated self-catheterization within 2 days, and gradual progress toward complete independence has been promoted.