If you're a woman, your chance of getting a urinary tract
infection, or UTI, is high; some experts rank your lifetime risk of getting one
as high as 1 in 2 -- with many women having repeat infections, sometimes for
years on end. Here's how to handle UTIs, whether you're experiencing your first
or fifth infection, and how to make it less likely you'll get one in the first
place.
Symptoms of UTIs
To identify a UTI, keep an eye out
for the following symptoms:
- A burning feeling when you urinate
- A frequent or intense urge to urinate, even though little comes out when you do
- Pain or pressure in your back or lower abdomen.
- Cloudy, dark, bloody, or strange-smelling urine
- Feeling tired or shaky
- Fever or chills (a sign the infection may have reached your kidneys.
A urinary tract infection (UTI)
is an infection involving the kidneys, ureters, bladder, or urethra. These are
the structures that urine passes through before being eliminated from the body.
- The kidneys are a pair of small organs that lie on either side of the spine at about waist level. They have several important functions in the body, including removing waste and excess water from the blood and eliminating them as urine. These functions make them important in the
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These functions make them
important in the regulation of blood pressure. Kidneys are also very sensitive
to changes in blood sugar levels and blood pressure and electrolyte balance.
Both diabetes and hypertension can cause damage to these organs.
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Two ureters, narrow tubes about
10 inches long, drain urine from each kidney into the bladder.
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The bladder is a small saclike
organ that collects and stores urine. When the urine reaches a certain level in
the bladder, we experience the sensation that we have to void, then the muscle
lining the bladder can be voluntarily contracted to expel the urine.
- The urethra is a small tube connecting the bladder with the outside of the body. A muscle called the urinary sphincter, located at the junction of the bladder and the urethra, must relax at the same time the bladder contracts to expel urine.
Any part of this system can
become infected. As a rule, the farther up in the urinary tract the infection
is located, the more serious it is.
The upper urinary tract is
composed of the kidneys and ureters. Infection in the upper urinary tract
generally affects the kidneys (pyelonephritis), which can cause fever, chills,
nausea, vomiting, and other severe symptoms.
The lower urinary tract consists
of the bladder and the urethra. Infection in the lower urinary tract can affect
the urethra (urethritis) or the bladder (cystitis).
Urinary tract infections are much more common in
adults than in children, but about 1%-2% of children do get urinary tract
infections. Urinary tract infections in children are more likely to be serious
than those in adults (especially in younger children).
Urinary tract infection is the most common urinary
tract problem in children besides bedwetting.
Urinary tract infection is second only to respiratory
infection as the most common type of infection.
These infections are much more common in girls and
women than in boys and men younger than 50 years of age. The reason for this is
not well understood, but anatomic differences between the genders (a shorter
urethra in women) might be partially responsible.
About 40% of women and 12% of men
have a urinary tract infection at some time in their life.
Urinary
Tract Infection (UTI) Symptoms and Signs
Symptoms of a urinary tract infection (UTI) are similar in men, women, and
children.- Early symptoms and signs are usually easy to recognize and primarily involve pain, discomfort, or burning when trying to urinate.
- Accompanying this can be the sense that one needs to urinate urgently (known as urinary urgency) or the need for frequent urination (called urinary frequency). Even when there is a strong urge to urinate, you may pass only a small amount of urine.
- The urine itself may appear bloody or cloudy. Men may feel pain in the rectum, while women may experience pain around the pubic bone.
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