WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for January, 2000: Re: how would you know?

Re: how would you know?

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:04:33 -0600 (CST)

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At Thu, 27 Jan 2000, peyton wrote: >
>I have had a urinary tract infection and took antibiotics(augmentin)
>Symptoms mostly gone,and still drinking lot of water-wondered how would
>you be able to tell if you had a kidney infection and is it likely to
>spread there after five days of antibiotics?? I feel much better, but
>have had some back pain-not only lower back but all over-where would it
>hurt,only lower back? I don't have a fever,and wonder if my back could
>be hurting from lugging a suitcase around the airport for eight hours a
>few days ago-please give me the symptoms of a kidney infection-THANK
>YOU!!!!
>
>--
>peyton
>

The symptoms of an uncomplicated bladder infection are urgency, frequency, and dysuria (frequent, painful, and recurrent urination). If the infection migrates up the ureter to the kidney, or begins in the kidney, you will have much more severe symptoms typically, including fever, generalized yucky feeling, as well as costoverterbral angle tenderness and flank pain. CVA tenderness is pain in the back at the bottom of the rib cage way over on each side. This is where the kidneys are. Typically, the pain is only on one side.

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William D. McIntosh, MD, FACOG
Clarksville, TN

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