What are the symptoms of a urinary tract infection in pregnant women?

In daily life, urinary tract infection is a relatively common urinary tract disease, and pregnant women are also prone to urinary tract infection during pregnancy, which greatly affects the physical health of pregnant women. The most obvious symptoms of urinary tract infection in pregnant women are painful urination or pain in the lower abdomen. They are prone to difficulty urinating and are also prone to fever.

Symptoms of urinary tract infection in pregnant women

After the urethra is inflamed, you will feel pain when urinating, and the frequency of urination will increase, even to the point of uncontrollable urgency, and hematuria and pyuria will appear. In addition to the above symptoms, acute cystitis is accompanied by difficulty urinating, lower abdominal distension and pain, frequent urination but very little urine volume, and severe pain during urination in severe cases. After bacteria infect the bladder, if they then go up the ureter to infect the renal pelvis and calyces, it will turn into acute pyelonephritis. At this time, in addition to symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, pain, hematuria or pyuria, there will also be chills, high fever, headache, and lower back pain that cannot be touched.

It is worth mentioning that if the urinary tract infection in pregnant women is relatively serious, frequent urination, bladder and lower abdominal muscle contraction and spasm may sometimes cause strong contraction of the uterus, resulting in miscarriage and premature birth. If it is acute pyelonephritis, bacterial toxins can pass through the blood at any time to harm the fetus, causing premature birth or stillbirth. In severe cases, pregnancy poisoning, renal failure or sepsis may occur. Since antibiotics and other drugs must be used to control urinary tract infections, they can also cause fetal poisoning, malformations and other congenital diseases.

Therefore, urinary tract infection in pregnant women is a condition that deserves great attention. When you find yourself having symptoms of urinary tract infection, you must go to the hospital for professional treatment in time.

Dangers of urinary tract infection in pregnant women

1. Impact on fertility

Patients may experience perineum pain and lower back pain, which may lead to infertility in severe cases. In addition, pregnant women with urinary tract infections may suffer from miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, low birth weight of newborns, pus drops in the eyes, conjunctivitis, respiratory tract infections, etc.

2. Causes arthritis

When the infection is severe, bacteria can invade the knee joint and cause arthritis.

3. Unbearable symptoms emerge in an endless stream

Patients with urinary tract infection will show symptoms such as urinary pain, urgency, and frequent urination. When complicated by upper urinary tract infection, there will be shivering, fever, back pain and dirty urine, sometimes accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms and systemic symptoms. After the bacteria infect the urethra, they will cause abscesses on the urethra. As a result, scarring will cause the urethra to narrow, and the patient will experience difficulty urinating and a thin urine flow. In addition, many women often go to the hospital for treatment because they cannot tolerate symptoms such as increased secretions and vulvar itching.

4. Cause multiple complications

If urinary tract infection is not treated in time, it may lead to complications of vaginitis, cervicitis, adnexitis, endometritis, pelvic inflammatory disease and other gynecological diseases.