Doctor becomes authorised prescriber for unapproved pineapple-flavoured UTI vaccine
Dr Amanda Chung says some patients experiencing repeated infections have had ‘life-changing’ results.
Sydney urological surgeon Dr Amanda Chung was cautious when the first patient asked her to prescribe an unapproved vaccine for recurrent UTIs.
Nowadays she is an authorised prescriber of the vaccine, called Uromune, under the TGA’s Special Access Scheme.
“As I learnt more about it and have prescribed it to a number of people with good results, then the confidence in it as a treatment increases,” she tells AusDoc.
“I have numerous patients where they’ve found that Uromune has really changed their life in terms of recurring UTIs.”
