{"id":39,"date":"2020-02-12T21:51:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthissues24.co.za\/?p=39"},"modified":"2020-02-12T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:51:01","slug":"do-utis-come-on-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/do-utis-come-on-suddenly\/","title":{"rendered":"Do UTIs come on suddenly?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> Changes that happen during pregnancy and after menopause can also make a woman prone to\u00a0<strong>UTIs<\/strong>. Sometimes you don&#8217;t even know you have a\u00a0<strong>UTI<\/strong>. Most often you will have symptoms, though. They\u00a0<strong>come suddenly<\/strong>, with no warning. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nAbout one out of five women will get a urinary tract infection (UTI) during the course of her lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do we get UTIs? Usually, bacteria enter through the urethra and go to the bladder. They grow in the bladder and move to other parts of the urinary tract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bacteria can get into a woman&#8217;s urethra during sex. You should go to the bathroom right after sex to flush the bacteria out. Women who use a diaphragm for birth control have twice the risk of getting a UTI. Changes that happen during pregnancy and after menopause can also make a woman prone to UTIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes you don&#8217;t even know you have a UTI. Most often you will have symptoms, though. They come suddenly, with no warning. Here are some of them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>A strong need to urinate<\/li><li>More frequent urination than usual<\/li><li>A sharp pain or burning in the urethra when you pass urine<\/li><li>Blood in the urine<\/li><li>Feeling like your bladder is still full after you pass urine<\/li><li>Soreness in your belly, back or sides<\/li><li>Chills, fever, nausea<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See a doctor if you have any of these symptoms. A UTI can be serious if you don&#8217;t treat it. The doctor will test a sample of your urine to find the problem. An antibiotic to treat the infection and pain relievers, if necessary, are the usual course of treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Ask Yourself:<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Yes<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>No<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Do you have these symptoms:<br>Fever and shaking chills<br>Back pain in one or both sides of your lower back<br>Vomiting and nausea<\/td><td>Seek emergency care<\/td><td>Go to next question<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Do you have these problems:<br>Burning when you pass urine<br>Passing urine a lot more often than usual<br>Bloody or cloudy urine<br>Pain in your abdomen or over your bladder<br>Nausea or a feeling like you&#8217;re going to vomit<\/td><td>See doctor<\/td><td>Go to next question<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Do you have any of these problems:<br>You urinate a lot, even at night.<br>You feel like you have an urgent need to urinate.<br>You feel like your bladder is still full after you urinate.<br>It stings when you pass urine.<br>Your urine smells bad.<br>It hurts to have sexual intercourse.<\/td><td>See doctor<\/td><td>Go to next question<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Have you had symptoms for more than three days, without getting better? Did medication the doctor prescribed give you side effects (e.g., skin rash or nausea)?<\/td><td>Call doctor<\/td><td>Go to next question<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Do you get UTIs a lot?<\/td><td>Call doctor<\/td><td>Provide self-care<br>(see below)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Self-Care Procedures:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Avoid alcohol, spicy foods and coffee.<\/li><li>Drink at least eight glasses of water a day. Liquids help wash out the infection.<\/li><li>Get plenty of rest.<\/li><li>Check for fever twice a day. Take your temperature in the morning and then in the afternoon or evening.<\/li><li>Take aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen or naproxen sodium. Note: Do not give aspirin or any medication containing salicylates to anyone 19 years of age or younger, unless directed by a physician, due to its association with Reye&#8217;s syndrome, a potentially fatal condition.<\/li><li>Go to the bathroom as soon as you feel the need.<\/li><li>Empty your bladder every time you pass urine. If you have a condition that keeps you from doing this, such as that which occurs in some people with multiple sclerosis, ask your doctor about using intermittent self-catheters.<\/li><li>Empty your bladder after sex.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes that happen during pregnancy and after menopause can also make a woman prone to\u00a0UTIs. Sometimes you don&#8217;t even know you have a\u00a0UTI. Most often you will have symptoms, though. They\u00a0come suddenly, with no warning. About one out of five women will get a urinary tract infection (UTI) during the course of her lifetime. How\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/do-utis-come-on-suddenly\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}