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Re: Urinary Tract infection or vaginal

From: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 2 Mar 2002 00:51:34 -0600 (CST)

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At Fri, 1 Mar 2002, anonymous wrote: >
>I have a uti question. Here is my recent history:
>
>I am 24 weeks. I had a sterile catch last week that showed no growth. I
>had a mid-stream catch this week that showed enteroccocus 10-50,000
>colonies.
>
>Due to slightly recurrent uti's, I have been placed on Macrobid 100 mg
>qd.
>
>Now that this slight infection came up, my doc said to take the Macrobid
>b.i.d. for 3 days and then resume prophylactic therapy qd.
>
>Here are my questions:
>
>1) I realize that this isn't a major infection, but if I was taking
>Macrobid 1x a day, will twice a day kill the infection?

once a day is designed to suppress an infection, increased doses can kill an existing infection, assuming hte bacteria is sensitive to teh drug >
>2) Since I had a steile catch which showed no growth on Tues. Feb 19,
>does this sound more like a vaginal infection? My doc did a culture on
>Feb. 12. it showed no strep b. He said that if there was any other
>bacterial infection it would have showed up, because it was a
>non-specific culture. Would an overgrowth of enteroccocus showed up?

usually vaginal contaminants show more than one type of bacteria

>
>3) If it is vaginal, is this dangerous as far as PROM, etc.?
>
>4) But either way, since the culture showed suscepitibility to Macrobid,
>it should clear it right? Even if it came from the vaginal area?
>
>5) He just did a urine culture based on my history, I believe the urine
>dipstick came up negative, so does that lessen the seriousness of this
>infection because other women wouldn't even know they were walking
>around with it?

no, lots of potentaily bad UTIs give negaative dipsticks (which is why I culture if the dip is negative but the woman has symptoms) >
>Thank you so much for your help. Sorry so lengthy. Just a history of 3
>m/c's, which would make any person neurotic.

tell me about it! I was neurotic after only 2 mc!

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