Symptoms Of Urinary Tract Infection

Symptoms Of Urinary Tract Infection

Symptoms Of Urinary Tract Infection

Urinary tract infection is associated with multiplication of organisms in the urinary tract and is defined by the presence of more than a hundred thousand organisms per ml in mid stream sample of urine (MSU). UTI is common in women; in fact the majority of women will have a UTI some time during their life. UTI is usually uncommon in men except in elders.

Before we discuss the symptoms of urinary tract infections, it must be kept in mind that UTI can be further categorized into two categories, the upper urinary tract infection and the lower urinary tract infection. Symptoms vary according to these categories.

The lower urinary tract infection includes urethritis (inflammation and infection of urethra), cystitis (inflammation and infection of bladder) and prostatitis (inflammation and infection of prostate).

There is often an abrupt onset of frequency of micturition (urination) and dysuria (painful urination with burning sensation). Scalding pain is felt in the urethra during micturition. Cystitis may give rise to supra pubic pain in women and in case of men, sense of pressure or pain in rectum, during and after voiding.

After the bladder has been emptied, there may be an intense desire to pass more urine due to spasm of the inflamed bladder wall. Supra pubic tenderness is often present or may occur on examination PR (per rectum) or PV (per vagina).

Urine may have an unpleasant odor and appear cloudy (indicating pus in the urine). Gross hematuria (blood in the urine) may occur.

The presence of pus cells in the urine (pyuria) is common, but not invariable.

Generalized symptoms like tiredness and weakness may accompany UTI, but fever is uncommon in lower urinary tract infection, but may be present if infection reaches to blood or kidneys.

Infants usually do not have characteristic symptoms as that of adults or elder children. They may have only fever and no other symptoms. But it must be kept in mind that UTI affects both male and female infants. Infants suffering from UTI are mostly irritable, with feeding problems accompanied by diarrhea and vomiting. Since nature of symptoms is so non-specific, UTI is difficult to diagnose in infants.

Elderly people usually present with fever, altered mental status, low body temperature (hypothermia) along with poor appetite.

In case of upper urinary tract infection when kidney gets infected, the condition is known as pyelonephritis. This condition presents with moderately high fever, loin pain (usually about at waist level), dysuria, cloudy or bloodstained urine and rigors.

Another fact must not be ignored that sometimes the symptoms of UTI may resemble with those of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

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