Pyelonephritis is an inflammatory disease of the "filters" of our body - the kidneys. And most often they do not suffer from grandparents, but young people and children. Women and girls are six times more affected than a strong sex. Among childhood diseases, pyelonephritis ranks second after respiratory diseases. Also, pregnant women become victims of kidney inflammation: as a result of hormonal confusion in the body of expectant mothers, the tone of the urinary tract decreases, the uterus squeezes the ureters, and this creates excellent conditions for the development of pyelonephritis. What if an insidious disease has trapped you or your child?
How to recognize pyelonephritis?
The cause of the disease are bacteria that can enter the kidneys through the genitourinary tract, as well as from another source of infection within the body.
Pyelonephritis makes itself felt suddenly: the body temperature rises sharply (38-39 ° C), accompanied by chills and fever, a little later there is pain in the lumbar part, nausea, a decrease in appetite. In children, in contrast to adult patients, the pain is localized in the abdomen.
If you have similar symptoms, you need to consult a doctor without delay or self-treatment. In no case can you decide for yourself what antibiotics to treat pyelonephritis, as this disease very quickly develops into a chronic form, if not start competent therapy.
How will the doctor help?
At the stage of diagnosis, the doctor will conduct a complex of blood and urine tests, X-ray and ultrasound studies. After that, a diagnosis will be made.
Pyelonephritis is distinguished in several forms:
- chronic;
- acute;
- chronic with exacerbation.
Depending on this, complex treatment of pyelonephritis with antibiotics and phytotherapy is prescribed, and a diet regimen is prescribed.
Antibiotics for chronic pyelonephritis
The causative agents of the disease can be: intestinal and pseudomonas aeruginosa, streptococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, proteus, enterobacter, etc. The analysis should reveal the presence of these insidious microorganisms in the urine, after which the doctor will prescribe the appropriate drug.
Most often in the treatment of chronic pyelonephritis, antibiotics such as:
- penicillins;
- cephalosporins;
- carbapenems;
- monobactams;
- tetracyclines;
- lincosamines;
- group of levomycetin;
- phosphomycin (phosphocin).
Antibiotics for acute pyelonephritis
When acute form is also very important to recognize the pathogen. Actually sowing urine on microorganisms and will show what antibiotics should be drunk with pyelonephritis.
- The causative agent is E. coli . Drugs: aminoglycosides (the doctor must take into account their toxic effect on the kidneys), cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones. These antibiotics treat pyelonephritis, caused by E. coli, for two weeks.
- The causative agent is proteus . Preparations: aminoglycosides, gentamicin, ampicillin and nitrofurans.
- The causative agent is enterococci . Drugs: a combination of gentamicin with ampicillin or levomecitin with vancomycin. Treatment with cephalosporins is ineffective.
The effectiveness of antibiotic treatment in acute pyelonephritis is determined by the doctor after several days of therapy. If the drug does not improve performance, it is replaced by another.
Complex treatment
As you can see, the list of antibiotics for pyelonephritis is extensive, but any doctor will say - these drugs themselves can not cope. The patient should help them by following a diet and patiently using phyto-tea.
Therapeutic diet presupposes the use in the first days of exacerbation of a large number of berries, fruits and melons, as well as vegetables (especially beets, cauliflower, carrots). In the following days of treatment, you can switch to a normal diet, but pay attention to the protein content (not less than 50% of animal origin) and salt (10-12 g per day).
During the treatment of pyelonephritis, antibiotics show abundant drinking - juices, green and black tea with lemon or milk, as well as teas from medicinal plants.
Healing bactericidal, diuretic, astringent and haemostatic properties are famous for such representatives of the flora as:
- cranberries;
- black elderberry;
- St. John's wort;
- corn silk;
- horsetail;
- Rowan;
- bearberry;
- strawberry leaves;
- cranberry.