Many of you women have experienced or are experiencing unpleasant and painful sensation when urinating.
If you didn’t know, UTI is the second most common infection in the body, and women are especially prone to it – key reason is the autonomy of women. Women have shorter urethra so the bacteria have better chance reaching the bladder.
To make womanhood more difficult than it is half of all women population will experience at least one UTI during her lifetime.
In addition, according to Ambulatory Care Visits to Physician Offices, Hospital Outpatient Departments and Emergency Departments: US, stated that UTI accounts for more than 8.3 million doctor visits every year.
The causes of UTI are simple – tiny organism clings to the urethra opening and multiply, and a common infection comes from Escherichia coli or E. Coli.
Symptoms include frequent urges of urination, burning sensation, only small amount of urine passes through, and sometimes there is blood in the urine (or hematuria).
So who’s at risk and what are the risk factors? Well, being a woman is number one risk. Second, being sexually active increases the chances of developing an UTI or increases reoccurrences of UTI.
Other risk factors are being on certain type birth control methods (e.g. diaphragm users and spermicide agent users are at higher risks), aging, kidney stones, diabetes or other chronic illnesses, or prolong use of catheters.
As you might all know by now, when you experience UTI or feels UTI coming on, antibiotic treatment will be prescribed to you to eliminate UTI.
Yes, there are preventative methods Click Here! – drinking cranberry juice and drinking lots of fluid such as water, wiping from front to back, not holding on to your urine in your bladder for a long period of time, empting your bladder after sex (as soon as possible), and avoiding heavily scented or highly irritating feminine products.
