Summer is coming, urinary tract infection is a very common disease.
Some people will suddenly urinate in a hurry and cannot hold it back at all. When urinating, they will suffer from special pain, want to urinate but dare not urinate, and even have hematuria, lumbago, stomachache, etc.
Especially women, if they know that this is urinary tract infection, they will go to the hospital for treatment. Even if some people think it is a general infection, they will not go to the hospital until they have symptoms of general discomfort such as fever, chills, nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite.
Why do I get urinary tract infection?
This is the most frequently asked question by patients. Come and see if you have these risk factors.
1. Women, especially pregnant women
Women with urinary tract infection have a very high incidence rate, because women’s urethra is shorter and wider than men’s, and bacteria are easier to enter. Women’s urethral orifice is adjacent to vagina and anus, and there are a large number of bacteria around vagina and anus, so they are prone to urinary tract infection.
Secondly, urinary tract infection is easy to occur in the physiological cycle, and sexual life is easy to push bacteria into the urethra and cause the disease.
Pregnant women’s urethral drainage is not smooth due to fetal compression, which is also a high incidence group of urinary tract infection.
2. Often hold your urine
Some patients often hold their urine and do not go to the toilet in time because of their working relationship. I have also met patients with urinary tract infection because I am busy playing mahjong and have no time to go to the toilet. It really does more harm than good!
3. Don’t like drinking water
Some patients do not like drinking water, or because it is hot, sweating more and drinking less water, the urinary system cannot be washed normally, and they are also prone to urinary tract infection.
4. Got a disease that makes urethra less unobstructed.
Suffering from urinary calculi, tumors, urinary stricture, male prostatic hyperplasia, prostatitis, redundant prepuce and other diseases is prone to poor urine flow, bacteria are not easy to excrete from the bladder with urine, and multiply in large quantities, thus causing infection.
5. Diabetes
Diabetes patients are more prone to infection because of high blood sugar.
6. Partner suffers from urinary tract infection or prostatitis
For female patients with recurrent urinary tract infection, their partners should also check for prostatitis, urinary tract infection and other diseases. If there is infection, husband and wife need to receive treatment together.
7. Indwelling catheter
If the catheter is retained for a long time, the incidence rate of urinary tract infection will be increased.
8. Decline in resistance
People with high work pressure, irregular life and rest, poor eating habits, lack of exercise and frequent colds are also vulnerable to urinary tract infection.
How to Prevent Urinary Tract Infection?
So there are so many risk factors for urinary tract infection, should we do it how to avoid urinary tract infection?
1. Living Rules
Actively exercise the body, strengthen the physique, prevent colds, avoid staying up late and overwork;
Step 2: Eating habits
At ordinary times, develop a good habit of drinking more water to ensure sufficient urine volume. Increased urine volume can play a role in flushing urethra and promote the excretion of bacteria and toxins.
3. Hygiene habits
Women should pay attention to keeping vulva clean. It is better to keep boiling water cool and warm, especially during menstruation, pregnancy and puerperium. Try to take a shower when taking a bath to avoid bath. Before the husband and wife live, both parties should clean their vulva and urinate once in the back row.
4. Be sure not to hold your urine and keep your stool unobstructed.
5. Avoid sex during urinary tract infection and within one week after cure.
What should I do if I have got urinary tract infection?
Has already paid great attention to, or unfortunately got urinary tract infection how to do? Usually, if you have the symptoms we mentioned at the beginning, please go to the hospital in time. You can hang up the number of nephrology department or urology department, and usually the doctor will give antibiotics treatment.
Whether oral or intravenous injection, should be strictly in accordance with the doctor’s requirements of the cycle, dose medication, don’t stop. Some only need oral medicine for 3-5 days, some people may need 2-4 weeks. If a treatment is not complete, it is easy to relapse. Doctors will arrange reexamination of urine during treatment, according to the results of urine examination to decide when to stop taking drugs.