What are the symptoms of urinary tract infection in women?

I don’t know if you have ever heard of urinary tract infection. This disease usually affects women. Because women have a special physiological structure, the number of women suffering from this disease is much greater than that of male patients. Summer is a high-incidence season for urinary tract infections in women because the hot weather makes it easy for bacteria to breed. So, what are the symptoms of urinary tract infection in women? Let me explain to you below.

This disease is more common in women of childbearing age, with a male to female ratio of approximately 1:8. Clinical manifestations include the following three groups.

1. Cystitis: commonly referred to as lower urinary tract infection. The main manifestation of cystitis in adult women is urinary tract irritation, i.e. frequent urination, urgency, pain, leukocytosis, occasional hematuria, even macroscopic hematuria, and discomfort in the bladder area. Generally there are no obvious systemic infection symptoms, but a few patients may have low back pain, low fever (generally not exceeding 38°C), and the white blood cell count is often not increased. About 30% of cystitis is self-limiting and can heal itself within 7 to 10 days.

2. Acute pyelonephritis: The symptoms include the following two groups of symptoms: ① Urinary system symptoms: including bladder irritation signs such as frequent urination, urgency, and pain when urinating, low back pain and/or lower abdominal pain; ② Symptoms of systemic infection: such as chills, fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, etc., often accompanied by increased white blood cell count and increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate. There is generally no hypertension or azotemia.

3. Chronic pyelonephritis: The course of chronic pyelonephritis is very hidden. Clinical manifestations are divided into the following three categories: ① Urinary tract infection manifestations: Only a small number of patients may have intermittent symptomatic pyelonephritis, but the more common manifestations are intermittent asymptomatic bacteriuria, and (or) intermittent lower urinary tract infection symptoms such as urgency and frequency of urination, waist and abdominal discomfort and (or) intermittent low fever. ②Symptoms of chronic interstitial nephritis, such as hypertension, polyuria, increased nocturia, and easy dehydration. ③Related manifestations of chronic kidney disease.

4. Atypical urinary tract infection: ① The main manifestation is systemic acute infection symptoms, while the local symptoms of the urinary tract are not obvious; ② The urinary tract symptoms are not obvious, but the main manifestations are acute abdominal pain and gastrointestinal dysfunction symptoms; ③ Hematuria, mild fever and low back pain

④ No obvious urinary tract symptoms, only back pain or lumbar pain; ⑤ A few people show renal colic and hematuria; ⑥ No clinical symptoms at all, but quantitative urine bacterial culture shows colony count ge; 105/ml.

These are some of the telltale signs of a urinary tract infection. Some people think that urinary tract infection is just a minor problem and nothing serious, so they don't take it seriously. If you think so, you are totally wrong. If urinary tract infection is not cured, it will cause other complications and cause great harm to the body. Therefore, everyone should actively seek treatment and recover health as soon as possible.