Great help & good design
My dad has used this for the last couple of years with great success.  It has been instrumental in allowing him -- and caregivers -- to sleep well and stay in bed through the night.  Now he has declined to the point where we have transitioned to condom catheters because he is no longer able to hold the urinal and position it correctly.<br /><br />I would give it 4.5 stars if I could, because there's a slight improvement I'd like to see in the design.  We have used the same urinal for a couple of years, but we have changed the collection bag several times (which cost only a few dollars each).  The urinal drain tube is the same diameter as the collection bag tubing, and there's a stretchy thin rubber sleeve (the green section you can see in the photos) that goes on the outside of both pieces to hold them together and seal the joint.  To change the bag, we<br /> • Remove the hard plastic barb fitting at the upper end of the bag tube, as it is not used<br /> • Roll back (condom style) the stretchy sleeve to release the old bag tube<br /> • While holding the sleeve in a rolled position, butt the new bag tube against the urinal drain tube<br /> • Release the sleeve and unroll it over the new bag tubing<br />This is easier said than done.  The sleeve is hard to roll up far enough, then hard to hold in place. while positioning the new tune.  If the new tube and the urinal drain tube are not butted closely together, the gap can allow the sleeve to twist and seal off the drain.  And if you let the sleeve slip in the process, it is very difficult to get the new tube in place without the sleeve rolled up.<br /><br />So the design improvement I would suggest is to change the joint at the urinal drain tube to allow easy usage with standard drain bag barb fittings.<br /><br />I suggest buying two of these.  We disinfect my dad's after each night with bleach water, but periodically, it's good to immerse the urinal itself in bleach water and soak it.  Having two of them makes this easier to do.
Rating: 5 stars