General presentation of UTI

The urinary tract filters and eliminates liquid wasters from the body. Its affections may be very painful, although they lack severity. Women are more exposed than men to bacterial urinary tract infections. Most of them have at least once in their lifetime a form of UTI. For the ones that have repeated infections, they are very unpleasant.

In order to deal with these conditions, antibiotic treatment is required, and the symptoms go away.

UTI is usually diagnosed by urinalysis, which shows equally the number of leucocytes and that of bacteria, using a microscope and a cultured amount of urine, but there are times in which for accuracy, an examination of the pelvis is also performed.

These infections are bothering the affected persons because they are unpleasant and painful, but almost never serious. The treatment eradicates them in almost one hundred percent of the cases.