Certainly inconvenient, always a disruption in your day. Recognized and treated for thousands of years. Home remedies, Ancient remedies carved in stone and written on scrolls. Surprisingly, with all the documentation by the wisest minds of each era, not much has changed. It hurts, remedies usually involve drinking lots of water; with or without various additives and eventually you got better. The one one fly in the ointment as it were was that if it progressed to a true kidney infection, it carried a 25% mortality rate; one in four women died! And with the poor sanitation, actual taboos on bathing and essentially no legitimate medical care the risk was real. So a simple UTI is vastly understated. Thankfully, simple, rapid testing with results giving Doctors with half a brain adequate information to treat with short, appropriate and accurate treatments to clear things up rapidly. However, as simple and straightforward as it seems the issue is not completely cut and dried. Most UTIs are the result of inadequate water intake (not sodas or bubble baths) or not emptying the bladder often and regularly, and even not wiping the right direction are the most common culprits with age and multiple childbirths adding a few points to the risk category.
Surprisingly, most kidney infections are not due to untreated UTIs and the reasons above, but are actually bloodborne. Bacteria actually finds its way into the blood stream and finds its way to the kidney which filters the blood resulting in the most common symptoms of fevers nausea and chills (not actual fever). Actual sepsis and shock come later and are the end stage symptoms.
Fortunately, at Perry Medical we know how to recognize these symptoms and have the facilities to confirm UTIs from Kidney infections and start proper treatment immediately.
