Urinary Tract Infection
A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection that originates in your urinary system. UTIS are not only painful but they are extremely annoying. Serious complications can occur if the infection spreads to your kidneys.
Your urinary system includes your kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra, all of which play an important role in removing wastes from your body. Your kidneys are a pair of bean shaped organs that are located in your upper abdomen and filter the waste from your blood. Tubes known as ureters carry urine from your kidneys to your bladder where it is stored until it exits through the urethra. Any and all of these parts can become infected.
Women are much more likely to experience a UTI. Actually over half of all women will develop a UTI in their lifetime. Some women will experience UTIS multiple times. Thankfully there are many ways to cure the infection and regain proper function of your organs and muscles.
Some people don’t develop any signs at all of having a UTI but common signs and symptoms include a strong and persistent urge to urinate, a burning sensation while urinating, passing frequent but small amounts of liquid, as well as blood in the urine or cloudy urine with a strong odor.
Each different type of UTI may result in specific signs and symptoms depending on which area of your urinary tract has become infected by bacteria. Acute pyelonephritis is the infection of your kidneys and can cause symptoms such as upper back and flank pain, high fever, shaking chills, nausea, or vomiting.
Cystitis is the infection or inflammation of your bladder which may cause pelvic pressure, lower abdominal discomfort, frequent and painful urination, and urine with a strong odor. Urethritis is the infection or inflammation of the urethra and causes a burning sensation when urinating. Men may experience a penile discharge.
Many UTIS occur when bacteria has entered the urinary tract and has began to multiply. Your urinary system has natural ways of fighting infection which are designed to help stop the growth of bacteria and keep out other such microscopic invaders. There are certain factors that will increase your odds of getting a UTI.
Cystitis commonly occurs in women after sexual intercourse. However even girls and women who aren’t sexually active are still susceptible to lower urinary tract infections simply because the anus is located so close to the urethra. In men urethritis is commonly a result of bacteria acquired through sexual contact. Such infections include gonorrhea and Chlamydia.
Sven Ullmann
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Can a urinary tract infection cause someone to lose their ability to speak and use their vocal chords?
Can a urinary tract infection cause someone to lose their ability to speak and use their vocal chords for three days?
Are people put into the ICU for a urinary tract infection and inability to swallow? And if so, would they begin feeding the person that milkshake stuff or just sugar water in the ICU?
I prefer someone from the medical community answer this. Thank you!
A urinary tract infection (UTI) will NOT make someone inable to speak.
Most people are NOT put in the ICU for an tract infection.
If the UTI has progressed to a kindey infection, you can be sure they'd only be passing clear fluids into their body.
There could be multiple problems and maybe one of those could render someone inable to speak.
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No, but a untreated UTI can lead to sepsis, a blood infection. This can be caused by an infection being left alone and can infect the bloodstream… not always the case, but more possible than people think. Sepsis can put you in the ICU if bad enough case.
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UTI's can cause confusion and increased instability in elderly patients, but I haven't heard of it causing swallowing difficulties. It would be possible that the person suffering from the UTI had a stroke (CVA which is what most of us just call a stroke, or a TIA which is a mini stroke, it mimics a CVA but is only temporary, usually a precursor to a CVA) while the infection was occurring and that can cause the difficulty in swallow. The milkshake stuff you are talking about sounds like tube feeding or Thicken added to food (both are used to help a person get nourishment while suffering from difficulty or inability to swallow). Also the patient would be receiving NaCl (normal saline) which is mostly water with 0.9% sodium added (it is the same salt to water balance that the body has) to keep the person from dehydration.
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Medical school, work experience.
Chronic UTI may lead to Kidney infection (pyelonephritis).
Possible Complications of Pyelonephritis:
* Recurrence of pyelonephritis
* Perinephric abscess (infection around the kidney)
* Sepsis
* Acute renal failure
In this case X th cranial nerve (Vagus nerve) might have affected due to septicemia.
Please note that I am not a medical professional.
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000505.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000522.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_nerves
okay Iam not a doctor my mum is a nurse the inability toswallow and ability to speak boils down to a neurological problem the symptoms you have given me are a sign of a stroke I suggest you call an ambulance and get yourself to the hospital they can prevent it from happening
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Only if the UTI bacteria got into their blood stream and they became septic. This could be the shock, and then yes they would be in the ICU
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