Urinary tract infection in infants

Also known as urinary tract infection in urinary system infection is abbreviated as \"urine\" is caused due to the bacteria invade the urinary tract. In fact, the sense of urine is common in children, does not lower the risk of urinary tract infections in children occur. According to the survey, this disease of urinary system diseases in children 8.5%, ranking fourth. This disease can occur in children of any age, particularly high incidence of infants under 2 years. 3-4 times the incidence of girls to boys, but incidence of infant boys more than girls.

Baby why \"urine\"

Mainly physiological Anatomy of the infant and environmental factors may determine. Infant of urinary tract easy occurs retrograde infection, because often using diaper or wear LEGGINGS, urethral mouth often by stool and other does not Jie property of pollution, Escherichia coli, and deformation Bacillus, and Deputy Escherichia coli, and Cray white Bacillus, and manure Streptococcus bacteria and the gold grape bacteria, multiple germs on stacked in urine crossing around, looking for opportunity; baby, especially girl urethral short, sphincter function difference, bacteria easy along urethral uplink to bladder; also infant ureteral late paragraph in bladder muscle layer go line of more short, bladder expansion Shi cannot will its pressure tight close, bladder holding urine Shi book ureteral retrograde and Shang caused renal pelvis infection; then plus infant itself immunity does not sound, Defense ability difference, not only easy caused uplink infection, also may because suffering from respiratory infection, and pneumonia, and bacteria blood syndrome, and led downward infection urethral. So the smaller babies, higher incidence.

Suffering urinary tract symptoms

In fact, urinary tract infection in infants and young children has symptoms of urinary frequency, urinary urgency, urinary pain, but they cannot express in words –

Fact, crying, none babies and restless performance is internal discomfort, pain;

Diaper needs changing, and urine output at a time but not much, perhaps it is frequency of urinary urgency;

Perineal common diaper rash, diaper the smell, and so on, may is characteristic of a urinary tract infection.

The symptoms of urinary tract infection, easy to be ignored. Instead, the most visible external manifestations of infection are fever, often easily observed and associated with respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms, have diverted the attention of parents and doctors, conceals the essence of the urinary tract infection. Therefore, the baby easy misdiagnosis in urinary tract infection.

Capture leads early detection

As long as the people\'s minds this concept of common diseases, early detection of urinary tract infections in infants is not difficult. If the baby appears in the following situation: often fever of unknown origin with growth retardation or weight loss, refusing to breastfeeding, difficulty feeding, cannot find the reason of crying, vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice, you should think of urinary tract infection.

Usually say \"unknown fever\" is the sign of the disease. Increase then then note whether the number of observation change diapers? Urine output is reduced at a time? Gain or the smell of urine smell? Urine is cloudy or diaper color burn; and repeated testing routine urine, urine timely clean the vulva, and leaving midstream urine, exclude pollution is still red and white cells in urine or pus cells, you can determine the urinary tract infection.

More detailed inspection is to determine the nature, extent, severity of infections and urinary tract deformities on the excluded or structural abnormalities of the urinary tract. Urinary tract infections in infants, often along the retrograde renal infection in the urine; even though the urinary tract infection in older children\'s delay in symptomatic treatment, sometimes ascending evolution into pyelitis, pyelonephritis, renal abscess, etc. To the rapid deterioration of the general situation of the children at this time, even out. Children do not have urethritis of refractory

Once the diagnosis should be thorough treatment in hospital, leaving no sequela.

Acute infections should be bed rest, drink plenty of water, urinating, shorten the residence time of bacteria inside the bladder. Girls should pay attention to the part of the vulva clean.

Antibiotic therapy: drugs of choice in acute urinary tract infection should be in high concentrations in urine, sensitive to bacteria, on renal harmless drugs. Parents should not be indiscriminate use of drugs to the baby, such as sulfa drugs in precipitation crystallization in urine, causing hematuria and renal damage; neomycin, streptomycin, kanamycin, pioneer toxin run the hearing loss and kidney damage, such as side effects, the baby should not be; green toxin drugs carefully allergy; in short, the medication should be strict control by regular hospital pediatric medical practitioner could never listen to quack just command, the misuse of antibiotics. By the rational antibiotic therapy of acute urinary tract infection, can quickly recover, but half of the patients can relapse or reinfection, chronic cases only one-fourth can be completely cured.

Preventive: necessary to seriously do a nursing infant genital mutilation, should be clean after each stool hips, diapers to often clean, best not to wear LEGGINGS, changing underwear. Drink plenty of water, sugar water to drink less, drink beverage containing alkaline, alkaline urine, to alleviate the irritation of the urinary tract. Boy redundant prepuce elderly should pay attention to clean, avoid urinary device and, if necessary, should be strictly aseptic operation.

Correction of deformity: if structural abnormalities of the urinary tract, the doctor will give appropriate treatment, if boy phimosis surgery, parents should not be denied. Because deformities are not stopped, sometimes infection is difficult to control and eradicate.