| The urinary infection is one of the most common | | | | During sexual intercourse in the vaginal area the |
| reasons for a person to be diagnosed with kidney | | | | bacteria may be pushed into the urethra and |
| infection. The most common kind of infection | | | | eventually end up in the bladder and the urine |
| affecting the urinary tract is the bacterial urinary | | | | provides a good environment for the bacteria to |
| tract infection (UTI). The fluid that is filtered out | | | | grow. UTIs are present at women who are |
| of the bloodstream by the kidneys is the urine or | | | | sexually active. By wiping from back to front |
| pee. Salts and waste products are present in | | | | after a bowel movement, which can contaminate |
| urine. A UTI can result when bacteria get into the | | | | the urethral opening a bacteria may be introduced |
| bladder or kidney and multiply in the urine. | | | | into a woman's bladder. The risk of getting a |
| The three main types of UTI are: urethritis which | | | | urinary tract infection is increased by using |
| is caused by bacteria that infect only the urethra, | | | | spermicides (including condoms treated with |
| cystitis, a bladder infection caused by bacteria, | | | | spermicide) and diaphragms as contraceptives. |
| pyelonephritis which is the infection of the kidney. | | | | UTI symptoms like pain with urination are caused |
| In the case of pyelonephritis a person has back | | | | by sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The |
| pain, high fever, and vomiting. | | | | inflammation and irritation of the urethra or vagina |
| The bladder infection causes discomfort and | | | | causes pain that can be associated sometimes |
| inconvenience. To avoid a more serious infection | | | | with chlamydia and other STDs. Serious long-term |
| of a kidneys the patient should get the treatment | | | | problems, including pelvic inflammatory disease and |
| promptly and in this way he will be quickly and | | | | infertility can occur if STDs is untreated. Opposite |
| easily treated. Bacteria are the ones which affects | | | | UTIs, STDs are contagious. |
| all patients. | | | | With bladder infections the following symptoms |
| E. coli, bacteria that are found in the digestive | | | | are associated: frequent urination, burning or pain |
| tract and on the skin around the rectal and vaginal | | | | during urination, the feeling of having to pee even |
| areas causes UTIs. The infection is caused when | | | | though little or no urine actually comes out, pain in |
| the bacteria enter the urethra. | | | | the lower abdomen, pain above the pubic bone (in |
| Because of the differences in the shape and | | | | women), a full feeling in the rectum (in men), |
| length of the urethra women are more | | | | bloody or foul-smelling urine, mild fever, a general |
| predisposed to tract infections more than guys. In | | | | feeling of shakiness and fatigue. |
| the case of girls the urethras is shorter than the | | | | More serious symptoms of kidney infection are: |
| one of guys and the opening lies closer to the | | | | high fever, chills, nausea and vomiting, abdominal |
| rectum and vagina where bacteria are likely to be. | | | | pain, cloudy or bloody urine, pain in the back, just |
| Vesicoureteral reflux is the most common | | | | above the waist. |
| functional problem of the urinary tract. In this | | | | If the symptoms won't go away and they |
| case the urine flows backward, or refluxes, from | | | | become worse a doctor should be called as soon |
| the bladder into the ureters and even up to the | | | | as possible and in this way the patient will suffer |
| kidneys. | | | | less. |
| A bacteria can get into the urethra several ways. | | | | |