URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS

Disease information

URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS

The urinary routes include / understand the kidneys, uretra, the ureteros, vejiga and the urinary meato and the difference between those of the man and those of the woman are that uretra is shorter in them than in them, which favors that the infections are more frequent in the women. In addition the location to the urinary meato, so near the anus, is a factor of very important risk that it does not exist in the men.

The kidneys have a most important function, that she is the one to filter the blood to clean it of impurities and toxic substances and to reject them of the organism by means of tinkles it that they produce. In a healthy person, it tinkles it that it is accumulated in vejiga, is sterile and some positive germs only are in her gram (staphylococcus, streptococcus, lactobacilus) that do not cause problems nor diseases.

The urinary infections, that generally affect uretra and vejiga, are caused by microorganisms that penetrate from the outside by uretra to vejiga urinary and loss or cystitis is multiplied causing an urinary infection. If the bacteria continue raising until the kidneys, can cause more serious high infections like the pielonefritis.

In small children, the urinary infections are caused by pathogenic germs, is to say microbes that cause diseases that arrive at the urinary routes by means of the blood or other elements from the body. In the greater children and children, the route of entrance of the microorganisms is the vagina or the penis.

The bacterium that causes with more frequency urinary infections, is the Escherichia Coli, but also they can be produced by bacteria like the Klebsiella, Proteus, Enterobater, Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus saprophyticus.

Although most of the urinary infections, they are controlled and they do not present / display complications, when the neurological treatment are the adapted one, the people with diabetes, problems, anatomical problems of tracto urinary, history of calculations reindeer - ureterales, will have to be made analysis frequently, to prevent an important complication or renales damages.

Between the main symptoms and signs of the urinary infections, they are:

Disuria or pain and ardor when tinkling.

Reddening.

Pain in the low part of the abdomen and in the lumbar region.

Temperature.

Urgency to tinkle.

Poliquiuria or increase of the frequency to tinkle.

It can appear tinkles it of cloudy color, by the pus presence (piuria) or dark by blood presence (hamaturia)

IMPORTANT: The content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not make people in charge on its use.

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