Urinary tract infection - treatment

Treatment of infections of the urinary organs depends on what symptoms the disease shows, which, in turn, is determined by the cause of the inflammatory process.

Urinary tract infection: symptoms and treatment

With inflammation of the urinary tract, there will be both general symptoms of inflammation (general weakness, headache, muscle pain, fever, sweating) and local symptoms from the inflamed organ (local pains - blunt, acute or flushing, frequent urination, pain or rezy with urination).

When the inflammation changes and the urine itself becomes cloudy, with sediment, flakes of mucus or pus, blood veins, often little urine is released with frequent urge to urinate . In a chronic inflammatory process, the symptoms are usually smeared or absent from remission, and when exacerbated, they resemble acute inflammation.

Treatment and necessary drugs for urinary tract infections are prescribed taking into account the severity of the process, and, if necessary, the type of pathogen after urine culture for sterility. If the infection of the urinary tract is chronic, or there was antibiotic therapy, treatment and medications usually the doctor prescribes only sowing urine for sterility.

Than to treat a urinary tract infection?

There are groups of drugs that are used for urinary tract infection, the main group of them are antibiotics. An antibiotic is often prescribed after sowing urine for sterility and determining the sensitivity of microorganisms isolated from it to antibacterial drugs. Such a crop helps to better determine how to cure the urinary tract infection completely.

If there was no sowing, then the main cure for urinary tract infection is broad-spectrum antibiotics. But many of them usually have a nephrotoxic effect, therefore, with renal failure, do not use Stemptomycin, Kanamycin, Gentamicin, Polymyxin.

1. For the treatment of a urinary tract infection, preparations of the cephalosporin group (Ceftriaxone, Cefatoxime, Cepipim, Cefaclor, Cefuroxime, Cephalexin) are usually used.
2. Quite often, semi-synthetic penicillins (Amoxacillin, Ampicillin, Oxacillin) are also used.
3. Of the group of macrolides, erythromycin is rarely used - more advanced drugs are used (Azithromycin, Clarithromycin, Roxithromycin).
4. Recently, fluoroquinolones have been used to treat urogenital infections, which have great efficacy in these diseases (Ofloxacin, Levofloxacin, Gatifloxacin, Ciprofloxacin).
5. Antibiotics apply the course within 5-7 days, if necessary - up to 10 days, for the prevention of fungal complications at the end of the course prescribe antifungals (eg Fluconazole). If the infection of the genitourinary tract is caused by protozoa, antiprotozoal drugs are prescribed ( Metronidazole , Ornidazole, Metrogil).
6. In a complex for the treatment of infection use sulfenilamidnye drugs (Urosulfan, Norsulfazol, Etazol, Biseptol).
7. Of the uroantiseptics prescribed drugs Nitrafuran group (Furagin, Furadonin, Furazolidon, Furazolin). A good antiseptic effect is also possessed by oxolinic acid derivatives (for example, 5-NOC).

In addition to antibiotics and antiseptics, an important role in the treatment of urinary tract infection is diet. You can not eat foods that are irritating to the mucosa of the urinary tract (acute, acidic, pickled dishes, spices, alcohol, tea, chocolate, coffee).

From folk medicine for treatment apply plants, which also possess uroantisepticheskim effect. In the modern pharmaceutical industry, these funds are combined into combined herbal preparations (Kanefron, Phytolysin, Uroflux). In complex treatment they use vitamin therapy, immunomodulators, physiotherapy methods of treatment.