What to do if you have a urinary tract infection during early pregnancy

Urinary tract infection is a common disease among urinary diseases. After the disease occurs, the infection will recur. It is difficult to cure it, and the treatment is different for patients of different ages. So what should you do if you have a urinary tract infection in early pregnancy? After pregnancy, the patient cannot use many medicines because of the fetus. To treat urinary tract infection, you need to use anti-inflammatory drugs or antibiotics. Improper use of drugs can cause fetal malformations, so be cautious when using drugs.

1. If conditions permit, go to the hospital for a urine test once a month or so. If you are diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, be sure to cure it thoroughly early, even before symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, and pain appear. If not taken seriously and the disease is allowed to continue to develop, worsen or recur, it will be extremely harmful to both the mother and the baby.

2. Don’t worry too much about the effects of too many drugs on the fetus. You still have to use the drugs when necessary. The important thing is to tell your doctor that you are pregnant. The doctor will try to choose drugs that are harmless to the fetus.

3. Choose antibiotics that are harmless to the fetus. First consider the use of ampicillin and cephalosporins. It would be best if antibiotics could be selected based on the results of urine bacterial culture and drug sensitivity tests, but drugs that are very effective for urinary tract infections but are harmful to the fetus (such as quinolones, gentamicin, kanamycin, chloramphenicol, etc.) should not be used. If Western medicine cannot find a suitable drug or the symptoms recur, it can be used as an auxiliary treatment with Chinese medicine or medicated diet therapy to improve and consolidate the therapeutic effect.

4. Be sure to go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment. Do not delay and wait for self-healing, or treat yourself, thinking that you have a urinary tract infection, and take the wrong medicine on your own to save trouble. The result is often that the best time for treatment is missed.

5. Pay attention to rest. During the acute infection period, the patient may have obvious urinary tract irritation symptoms or fever and should rest in bed. He or she can get out of bed and move around after the body temperature returns to normal. Generally, patients with acute simple cystitis should rest for 3 to 5 days, and patients with pyelonephritis should rest for 7 to 10 days. They can resume work when the symptoms disappear. Chronic patients should also rest appropriately according to their condition to prevent reinfection due to low immunity caused by excessive fatigue.

Although general treatment seems simple, it is an important part of treating urinary tract infections and reducing recurrence rates. When the incidence and recurrence rates of urinary tract infections have not decreased due to the continuous emergence of new and highly effective antibiotics, it is more necessary to drink more water, urinate frequently, pay attention to rest, and increase nutrition. These are medical instructions that cannot be ignored in clinical practice to ensure and improve efficacy.

What should you do if you have a urinary tract infection in early pregnancy? This article provides a detailed explanation of the treatment of urinary tract infections during pregnancy. The doctor will choose treatment based on the severity of the infection and also check the type of virus that causes the infection before deciding on a treatment plan. If it is a virus that can infect the fetus, it is best to terminate the pregnancy to prevent the fetus from being infected by bacteria and developing deformities.