What Are Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)?
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What Are Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)?
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are bacterial infections in the urinary system. They’re very common and usually not serious, though there can be exceptions.
Your urinary tract includes your bladder, kidneys, ureters (two tubes that go from your kidneys to your bladder), and urethra (how urine goes out of your body from your bladder).
Who Gets Urinary Tract Infections?
Anyone can. But UTIs are more likely if you:
· Are a woman
· Have had UTIs before
· Have a condition that affects your bladder's nerve supply (including diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and spinal cord injuries)
· Have been through menopause
· Are overweight
· Have something that blocks the passage of urine, such as a tumor, kidney stone, or an enlarged prostate
· Have a catheter, a tube placed into the bladder to drain urine from the bladder into a bag outside the body
Most of these traits also raise the chance that a simple bladder infection may become a more serious kidney infection, or turn into sepsis (an infection that has gotten into your bloodstream). For pregnant women, a kidney infection can raise the odds of delivering a baby too early.
Women are more likely to get urinary tract infections, because the tube that goes from the bladder to the outside (the urethra) is much shorter than in men. Because the urethral opening is closer to the anus in women, it’s easier for bacteria from stool to get into the female urethra. A urinary tract infection may be linked to sex.
In men, a bladder infection is almost always a symptom of another condition. Often, the infection has moved from the prostate or some other part of the body. Or it may mean that a tumor or something else is blocking or interfering with the urinary tract.
Urinalysis checks your urine sample for white blood cells, blood, and bacteria.
A urine culture is another test that can find the type of bacteria that caused the infection, which will help your doctor choose an antibiotic to give you.
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