Correspondence (letter to the editor): Self-Help

In view of the limited extent of conservative methods available to deal with urethral stricture, the too little-known (in my opinion) but still effective method of “self-hydraulic urethral dilation” warrants mentioning, by which male patients can themselves help prevent further surgery for recurrence. Patients hold the urethra closed—in a distal position to the stenosis—for up to a minute by applying pressure with two fingers; the build-up of pressure in the lumen will prompt a mild dilatation of the urethra.