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Urinary infections in children
22:07 Posted In in children , infection , symptoms and signs , Treatment , Urinary Tract , UTI Edit ThisUrinary tract infection (UTI) is a disease that is often found in children, in addition to gastrointestinal infection. UTI is an important disease in children, because it causes unpleasant symptoms in children.
If not tackled seriously, UTI can cause complications such as urinary tract stones, hypertension, or kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplant actions kidney. Therefore, we should recognize UTI can be arranged as early as possible in order to avoid inadequate governance with a worse result.
UTI can be about all people, starting a newborn to adults, both male and female. UTI is more common in infants or children dtemukan small compared with adults. In infants up to age three months, UTI is more often in men than women, but then more often on women than men.
UTI occurs as a result of the entry of bacteria into the urinary tract. Usually the bacteria come from feces or rectum, into the lower urinary tract, or urethra, then up into the bladder and can be up to the kidney. Germs can also enter the urinary tract through the bloodstream from other places who widened, there is a urinary tract obstruction, enlarged bladder and others. Just like any other infectious disease, UTI will more readily occur in children with malnutrition or a child's immune system is low. Children who experience frequent constipation or restrain restrain urine (pee) can also be at risk of UTI.
Symptoms:
- Sometimes no symptoms, and diagnosed with kidney failure after complications occur. In newborns, the symptoms are not typical, so it is often not thought of, for example, unstable temperature (fever or a temperature lower than normal), look sick, inflammable or Irritable, not drinking, vomiting, diarrhea, flatulence, urine color appear reddish or yellow.
In infants over one month, can include fever, reddish urine, easily aroused, seemed ill, decreased appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, flatulence or appear yellow. At preschool age children or school, UTI symptoms may include fever with or without chills, pain in the waist area, bermih time pain, urinary leak a little but often, feeling like urinating, urine, cloudy or reddish color.
Treatment:
If there is suspicion of UTI, it is necessary laboratory examination, ie examination of the urine, urine routine and culture. Urinalysis examination results may be known, whereas the urine culture results may take one week.
There are three important things are wont to do if a patient already diagnosed with UTI sebagaii: first, to eradicate infection: second, detect, prevent, and treat recurrent infections and the third detecting anatomical and functional abnormalities of urinary tract and overcome if there
To combat infection, the drug is given disinfectant (antimicrobial or antibiotic) for 7-10 days. To the extent possible germ killer drug is given in accordance with the results of sensitivity tests of germs that are known from the results of urine cultures. To detect recurrent infection, need to do a urine culture examination on a regular basis, and if there is infection, the infection is treated with appropriate antibiotics.
To detect the anatomical and functional abnormalities of urinary tract, typically doctors perform a more thorough physical examination and imaging examination was performed if necessary / radiological examinations such as ultrasound or x-ray of the kidneys and urinary tract. If there are abnormalities in the urinary tract, then the administration of then adjusted with abnormalities found in whether or not to require surgical intervention. IDAI.or.id
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If not tackled seriously, UTI can cause complications such as urinary tract stones, hypertension, or kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplant actions kidney. Therefore, we should recognize UTI can be arranged as early as possible in order to avoid inadequate governance with a worse result.
UTI can be about all people, starting a newborn to adults, both male and female. UTI is more common in infants or children dtemukan small compared with adults. In infants up to age three months, UTI is more often in men than women, but then more often on women than men.
UTI occurs as a result of the entry of bacteria into the urinary tract. Usually the bacteria come from feces or rectum, into the lower urinary tract, or urethra, then up into the bladder and can be up to the kidney. Germs can also enter the urinary tract through the bloodstream from other places who widened, there is a urinary tract obstruction, enlarged bladder and others. Just like any other infectious disease, UTI will more readily occur in children with malnutrition or a child's immune system is low. Children who experience frequent constipation or restrain restrain urine (pee) can also be at risk of UTI.
Symptoms:
- Sometimes no symptoms, and diagnosed with kidney failure after complications occur. In newborns, the symptoms are not typical, so it is often not thought of, for example, unstable temperature (fever or a temperature lower than normal), look sick, inflammable or Irritable, not drinking, vomiting, diarrhea, flatulence, urine color appear reddish or yellow.
In infants over one month, can include fever, reddish urine, easily aroused, seemed ill, decreased appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, flatulence or appear yellow. At preschool age children or school, UTI symptoms may include fever with or without chills, pain in the waist area, bermih time pain, urinary leak a little but often, feeling like urinating, urine, cloudy or reddish color.
Treatment:
If there is suspicion of UTI, it is necessary laboratory examination, ie examination of the urine, urine routine and culture. Urinalysis examination results may be known, whereas the urine culture results may take one week.
There are three important things are wont to do if a patient already diagnosed with UTI sebagaii: first, to eradicate infection: second, detect, prevent, and treat recurrent infections and the third detecting anatomical and functional abnormalities of urinary tract and overcome if there
To combat infection, the drug is given disinfectant (antimicrobial or antibiotic) for 7-10 days. To the extent possible germ killer drug is given in accordance with the results of sensitivity tests of germs that are known from the results of urine cultures. To detect recurrent infection, need to do a urine culture examination on a regular basis, and if there is infection, the infection is treated with appropriate antibiotics.
To detect the anatomical and functional abnormalities of urinary tract, typically doctors perform a more thorough physical examination and imaging examination was performed if necessary / radiological examinations such as ultrasound or x-ray of the kidneys and urinary tract. If there are abnormalities in the urinary tract, then the administration of then adjusted with abnormalities found in whether or not to require surgical intervention. IDAI.or.id
