Urinary Tract Infection Symptoms, Urinary Tract Infection Treatment

Urinary Tract Infection Causes

Urinary tract infections are caused by bacteria overgrowth in your urinary tract. This can be anywhere from the urethra (urine exit), the bladder, to higher up in your kidneys. Because the urethra is closer to the bladder and anus in females, urinary tract infection are more common in females. Bacteria often reach the urinary tract system from the bum while wiping away stool, or transfer during sex.

Urinary Tract Infection Symptoms

• Burning when you pee.
• Frequent small urination due to irritation of your bladder.
• Feeling you must go right away when you feel the urge to pee.
• Foul odor and cloudy urine.
• Blood in your urine.
• Pain just above your pubic bone from the bladder. If pain is also in your loins - sides - the infection may have reached up to your kidneys i.e. pyelonephritis - this is the most serious form of urinary tract infection symptoms.
• Fever. Malaise.

Urinary Infection Treatment

• Drink more water. Why drink more water for a UTI? Drinking more water helps flushes out the annoying bacteria from your urinary tract.
• Urinary antibiotics. These tablets for 3 to 7 days kill bacteria just like they would for a strep throat or any other bacterial infection.
• Urinary antispasmodics are sometimes used to reduce urinary burning and urgency for comfort while taking antibiotics.
• A glass of cranberry juice each day has been found in studies to reduce urinary tract infection frequency by making the urinary tract difficult for bacteria to stick to.
• Naturopaths may suggest daily Lactobacillus. This friendly yogurt culture bacteria may compete with bad pathogenic bacteria for living space reducing UTI frequency and/or severity. It can be taken by eating probiotic yogurt each day or from capsules of the bacteria.

Emergency Urinary Tract Infection Treatment

• For typical bladder infections antibiotics taken by mouth are sufficient.
• If the infection reaches further up to your kidneys with constitutional symptoms it can become an emergency requiring intravenous antibiotic treatment.

Urinary Tract Sex Infection Treatment

• Frictional irritation from sex in some women can lead to repeated urinary tract infections after each intercourse. This can be treated by post-coital - after sex - short 1-3 day courses of oral antibiotics kept at home.

HoneyMoon Cystitis

• This form of urinary tract infection is associated with with either sex or public pool use. Treatment is identical as for other forms of urinary tract infection.

Medicinenet urinary tract infection information

 

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