One of the most common urinary tract diseases that can happen to almost anyone is urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infection, which is a very painful disease, is a disease that can be easily diagnosed because the symptoms of urinary tract infection make itself felt very clearly.
After everything we eat and drink is processed in our body and the parts that are beneficial to our body are mixed into the blood, everything that is not beneficial to our body is thrown out of our body by the excretory system. Urinary tract infection, which is one of the diseases of the excretory system, is a disease that negatively affects our quality of life and can damage our kidneys if not treated on time.
Urinary Tract Infection Symptoms
Urinary tract infection is a term used to describe inflammation caused by bacteria entering our urinary tract from the outside.
Urinary tract infection symptoms: The urine filtered from the kidneys collects in the urinary bladder, which is called the bladder in our body. Inflammation of the bladder is called cystitis. Cystitis is a lower urinary tract infection. Again, one of the lower urinary tract infections is urethritis. Urethritis is the name given to the infection that occurs in the tube where the urine collected in the bladder is discharged from the body.
The symptoms of common lower urinary tract infection are as follows;
- The need to urinate very often
- Difficulty urinating
- Seeing blood in the urine
- Burning and pain when urinating
- Abdominal pain and bloating
Upper Urinary Tract Infection
Kidney involvement is usually seen in upper urinary tract infections. One of the upper urinary tract infections, pyelonephritis is used to describe the infection that occurs in the kidneys.
Common upper urinary tract infection symptoms include:
In addition to lower urinary tract infections; high fever, nausea and vomiting, pain in the kidneys, weakness.
Urinary Tract Infection Treatment
The antibiotic treatment to be chosen in urinary tract infections depends on whether the disease is complicated or simple. In addition, the antibiotic therapy to be used at the beginning can be selected according to the conditions such as allergy or side effect profile of the patients. According to the test result, the type of antibiotic given to people who have urine culture and sensitivity test can be changed and an antibiotic that directly affects the bacteria can be started.