Minimizing the use of indwelling urinary catheters is preferable to reduce infection risk, with intermittent catheterization being a recommended alternative.

“Intermittent catheterization poses less of an infectious risk than constant catheterization little counterintuitive right you would think gosh if three times a day you have to Cath somebody that's three times you're introducing it but you're saying if it's done with perfectly sterile technique dwell time right so three times a day for 60 seconds each for so that's 180 seconds versus 24/7 for the bacteria to be there and we know if you leave a catheter in place by 48 Hours the the bacteria has CED crawled up the the tubing and is in the bladder so yes if you can minimize the dwell time of the foreign body the better so yes it is a little counterintuitive but for men and for women if you can do intermittent catheterization that's a profound way to reduce the chances that you develop any you know Euros sepsis”