KIDNEY INFECTION URGENT please help me.?
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I'm not a doctor, but have a history of kidney infections. She needs to go to the hospital right now! Her temperature is really high (it's the body's way of trying to kill off the infection). If allowed to get higher or continue at that temp for a prolonged period, she could suffer brain damage (the temperature literally cooks the brain).
If she has a kidney infection, she'll have tremendous, acute pain in her back right below the ribs, and on both sides of the spine. (It's in the soft, fleshy waist area around the back.) She may have pain only on one side, but I think typically infections this bad attack both kidneys. She's most likely experiencing burning when she pees. I'm not surprised she's vomiting...the pain really does get that bad. She probably can't sit upright or stand for very long, if at all. I couldn't walk when mine would get bad.
The only thing that will kill the infection and get rid of the pain is antibiotics, specific to this type of infection (I was on ampecillan, but they may use something different these days). That fever MUST come down immediately. Use washclothes; soak them in cold water and put them on her pulse points: inside wrist and elbow, under arms, behind her knees, on her forehead and around her throat. You'll feel the heat of her fever transfer to the washclothes. When this happens, flap the wet cloth in the air til it cools down again and keep applying them to these points. This is not as quick as a cold bath, but it isn't as traumatic to the child. But get her to a hospital emergency room NOW!
P.S. To avoid future infections, she needs to learn to wipe after the bathroom from front to back. This is the most common cause of kidney and bladder infections in children. Also, certain types of bubble bath can irritate and cause minor infections. She may also be genetically predisposed to kidney infections (as I am). One of the things that has helped me tremendously is drinking cranberry juice. (Not the kind that has two flavors, like cran-raspberry. Just straight cranberry juice...Oceanspray is good.) You can have her drink that now. She'll have to drink a lot of it over the course of the next week, but it will help flush out her system and keep her hydrated, as well.
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she needs to go to the emergency room now.
Is she on antibiotics? My daughter had one six weeks ago and the fever was that high and she was very sick. But as long as she's under medical care, she'll be fine. Just make sure they re-check her urine after she finishes the meds. It's going to run its course - I know it's unnerving, but it'll be fine. Keep her as hydrated as you can. If she just can't keep anything down at all, contact the dr. She/he can prescribe a phenergan suppository so that she can keep fluids down. Good luck.
You really should take her to a doctor as soon as possible, but if her temperature increases, take her to the ER so she doesn't get worse because of the fever. The hospital may be your best choice right now. Hope she gets better!
Up to 50% of infants and preschool children with a UTI—particularly those with fever—have both bladder and kidney infections. If the kidney is infected and reflux is severe, 5 to 20% of children go on to have some scarring of the kidneys. If there is little or no reflux, very few children have scarring of the kidneys. Scarring is a concern because it may lead to high blood pressure and impaired kidney function in adulthood.
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec23/ch272/ch...
What is vesicoureteral reflux?
With normal urination, the bladder contracts and urine leaves the body through the urethra. With vesicoureteral reflux, some urine goes back up into the ureters and possibly up to the kidneys. Reflux exposes the kidneys to infection. In children, particularly those in the first 6 years of life, urinary infection can cause kidney damage. The injury to the kidney may result in renal scarring and loss of future growth potential or widespread scarring and atrophy. Even a small area of scarring in one kidney may be a cause of high blood pressure later in life. Untreated reflux on both sides can, in the most severe instances, result in kidney failure requiring dialysis or kidney transplantation. Lots of information on the link below.
http://www.aafp.org/afp/990315ap/1472.ht...
I READ YOUR OTHER QUESTION, I KNOW SHE IS IN THE HOSPITAL NOW, SO EVERYONE CAN STOP TELLING HER TO GO TO ER.
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SHE NEEDS T0 GO TO THE ER ASAP! DON'T SIT WAITING FOR ANSWERS!
If she is on an antibiotic she may need a different one. I just recently had a severe kidney infection and the first antibiotic I was put on didn't work and I progressively got worse. I had to go to the ER because the pain was so bad. You do need to be aggressive about this to minimize the scarring on the kidney (speaking from experience). I was also told to look for blood in the urine and pain in my kidneys after going to the bathroom.
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