UK children’s ketamine clinic treats patients as young as 13
Doctors at the UK’s only dedicated NHS clinic for children with ketamine-related bladder damage are treating patients as young as 13, BBC News reports. Young users describe severe symptoms, including urinating material likened to a jellyfish. The supplied material gives no patient numbers or outcomes.
Doctors at the United Kingdom’s first and only dedicated NHS clinic for children with ketamine-related bladder damage are treating patients as young as 13, BBC News reports. The clinic is seeing children affected by damage associated with ketamine use. Young patients have described the experience of urinating material as being like “a jellyfish”, according to the report’s headline.
The supplied material does not state how many children are receiving treatment or describe the medical procedures being offered. It also does not provide information about the patients’ long-term outcomes. The report identifies the age of the youngest patients seen by the clinic but gives no further details about their circumstances.
No comment from health authorities, families or people involved in ketamine supply is included.
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