Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Vigilance urinary tract infection in children

Urinary tract infection is a common disease of children, Invasive means pathogenic microorganisms cause urinary tract urethritis, cystitis, pyelonephritis and renal inflammatory substance, referred to collectively as urinary tract infection, urethritis, cystitis said lower urinary tract infection; pyelonephritis and renal abscess, renal abscess Zhou said on urine Road infection. Clinical divided into acute and chronic infection.
Typical Case performance are fever, chills, frequency, urgency,even hematuria. Infant atypical symptoms, only for the performance of fever, bad or voiding spirit when crying, easily misdiagnosed as easy to not timely treatment of chronic or recurrent infections caused kidney damage. Boys and repeatedly infected with congenital urinary more deformity. Children of all ages can stage disease, to see more infants, girls more than boys. Boys incidence of neonatal period, and at this time should consider systemic infection (such as sepsis).
If the following symptoms Please note:
1. Neonatal period with systemic symptoms, such as fever, and rejected milk, pale,not by weight, less sluggish moving, convulsion, jaundice, and so on.
2. Infancy still systemic symptoms, urinary symptoms gradually increase significantly with age, when crying urination, frequency, refractory Diaper Rash should think of this disease.
3. Childhood are more typical frequency, urgency,such as voiding symptoms, and from time to time under the renal abdominal pain, a small number of patients had a transient hematuria, systemic symptoms not more prominent.
If the above symptoms please timely treatment. And attention to the rest, nutrition, drinking water and more to increase urine output. Attention perineal hygiene can reduce, repeated infections in children (especially 1-year-old baby boy inside) must pay attention to whether congenital urinary tract malformations, seek medical examination as soon as possible, once the diagnosis of clear guidance to doctors early in active use antibiotic therapy and treatment to enough.

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