Symptims for urinary infection?
Question:
Can anyone please let me know the symptoms for urinary infection ? What kind of doctor we need to consult to diagonise the same ? How long it takes to cure ?
Answers:
Symptoms of a urine infection include, dysuria (burning), pain people say it feels little your passing razor blades, frequency (having to go often), retention feeling like you need to go but nothing comes out, cloudy strong smelling urine, may also be haematuria (presence of blood), abdominal/kidney pain, possible fever and chills.
You should go to your doctor, they can take off a sample to be sent to a microbiology lab for diagnosis.
If you do have a UTI you want to have it treated sooner rather than later as if left untreated it can move from your bladder up into your kidneys and cause a kidney infection. These are more painful and take longer to treat than a UTI.
If you are diagnosed with a UTI the normal treatment is a course of antibiotics for 3-5 days. For kidney infection it is 7 days. After treatment your doctor should take a further sample off you to ensure that the treatment has been successful.
You should also drink lots of water to keep yourself hydrated and to aid in flushing out the bacteria from your urinary tract. To help prevent you from developing future infection you should drink cranberry juice or take concentrated cranberry tablets. Cranberries have been proven to prevent bacteria from adhering to your urinary tract. I take cranberry tablets everyday as i have a history of recurrent uti's/kidney infection.
burning, retention, feeling like u need to go but cant, urinating frequently, change in odor, color.......many factors, fever
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