Pyelonephritis which also known as kidney infection bring damage to kidneys for good, or responsible for serious infection when it spreads to our bloodstream. Typically, kidney infection begins when bacteria go into the urinary tract through the urethra and then start multiply. Some signs that can be countable when we have kidney infection problem is, abdominal ache or pressure, necessitate urinating during the night, cloudy urine with a strong odor or numerous urination. Further more, this additional sign also appears in severe kidney infections cases, like some nausea, extreme fatigue, chills, and high fever.
The most common way for bacteria that provoke kidney infection to entering the urinary tract is through urethra and from there begin it multiplications phase. Other wise, kidney infection can also appear through bloodstream. Having bacteria in the urine doesn’t always mean you have an infection. Many researches have revealed that the chance for women to develop kidney infection is bigger that men, which interestingly pointed sexual activity at women could raises their risk to get troubled by kidney infection. Some reason is because bacteria can be introduced into the urethra.
Many studies also pointed other factors that could increase the possibility of developing kidney infection, there are some medications that decrease immunity, such diseases, like diabetes, cancer or HIV, long term using tubes for draining urine from bladder, get kidney stones, structural abnormalities in urinary system, or an enlarged prostate gland in men. Besides, vesicoureteral reflux also counted as condition that could raises the possibility of developing kidney infection. That condition allows urine flow from bladder backup into urethras and kidneys.
When there is a sign of pain at your upper back and got fever, you need to an extra care and start monitoring it, since it might be a symptom of kidney infection. The doctor or neurologist might suspect there is an infection located in your kidneys and they might ask for a urine sample in order to test it for blood, and if there is a sign for bacteria presence. Although, there are no tests to find out exactly where is the infection located, is it infected the kidneys or inside the bladder. For dramatic cases, such an infection could bring pregnant women delivered underweight babies or having a premature birth, which is dangerous for both mother and the babies.
Kidney infection treatment is consists of using some antibiotic drugs. The most common used antibiotic drugs are: amoxicillin, trimethoprim, quinolones and nitrofurantoin. In kidney infection acute case, your doctor might suggest an antibiotic drugs intravenous and you must hospitalise for a couple of days. As it very common and ironically the easiest way to prevent kidney infections that most people usually avoid is you must consume lot of liquids, especially water and you should urinate more often and not retain your urine for long time, because that is the phase when bacteria will start develop and bring lot of kidney trouble in the future.
Compile and re-written based on an article by Groshan Fabiola