More microbiome news … Urinary Tract Infection

Focus on:

The causes of UTI, why it matters and looking especially at recurrent UTI in postmenopausal women and in men with poor urine flow due to benign prostatic hyperplasia [BPH]. All these lessons are equally applicable to your daughters.

This matters, because…

Urinary infection is dangerous: either in your parents, or if you are 65+ for you, too.

If there is a UTI and delay in diagnosis; or antibiotics are either not prescribed or deferred, then 25-30% [ 5-6 in 200] end up in hospital, about 1 in every 200 have septicaemia and overall 2% [4 in 200] die, but that rises to 5.4% [11 in 200] of the untreated who may not get even get to hospital i. The authors say…