UTIs During Pregnancy: Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention

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UTIs During Pregnancy Symptoms, Treatment
Prevention

• As if your urinary tract werent under enough
  pressure! Heres why you need to be on guard
  against urinary tract infections, or UTIs, during
  pregnancy.

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UTIs During Pregnancy Symptoms, Treatment
Prevention

• Your urinary tract is the perfect breeding ground
  for unwelcome visitors bacteria. They multiply
  fast in areas being squished by your expanding
  uterus. That compression plus the muscle-relaxing
  properties of the hormones flooding your body
  makes it much easier for the intestinal bacteria
  that live quietly on your skin and in your feces
  to enter your urinary tract during pregnancy and
  make you miserable. In many cases, you may
  actually have an infection even though you
  experience no symptoms at all and left untreated,
  UTIs can cause serious problems.

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CAUSES OF A UTI DURING PREGNANCY
All women are at risk for UTIs (even more so than
men because, for starters, our urethra is
shorter, making it easier for bacteria to enter
the bladder).
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Bacteria from the bowel

•  UTI-causing bacteria can come from several
  places. A common bacterial invader, E. coli,
  comes from the bowel.

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UTI SYMPTOMS

• Burning sensation during urination
• Frequent trips to the bathroom to urinate (though
  alone is a common and harmless side effect of
  pregnancy)
• Intense urge to urinate while the amount of urine
  expelled is small
• Cloudy, dark, bloody or foul-smelling urine
• Low-grade fever
• Lower-abdominal pain or discomfort
• Pain that occurs on one side between the upper
  abdomen and the back or on the back this could
  indicate a kidney infection, which should be
  treated immediately
• Chills, nausea and vomiting, which can also be
  signs of a kidney infection

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UTI DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT

• The standard way to diagnose one (during
  pregnancy or otherwise) is a urine culture. Most
  doctors will ask for a clean catch sample,
  where you pee into a cup midstream after
  carefully wiping your outer vaginal area.

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painful urination treated
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