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UTIs During Pregnancy: Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention

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UTIs During Pregnancy: Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention

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  1. UTIs During Pregnancy: Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention • As if your urinary tract weren’t under enough pressure! Here’s why you need to be on guard against urinary tract infections, or UTIs, during pregnancy.

  2. 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.

  3. 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).

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

  5. 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

  6. 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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