What is the cause of high white blood cells in routine urine tests

  If you have a routine urine test and find elevated white blood cells, you should consider inflammation of the urinary system.  The white blood cells are the body’s immune cells, equivalent to the body’s defenders, to prevent the invasion of external bacteria, when the white blood cells are elevated to suggest that there is an infection caused by the body’s inflammatory response, the more common cases are urethritis, cystitis or nephritis, men can also be seen in prostatitis, the higher the number of white blood cells, suggesting that the symptoms of infection more serious.  When there is inflammation of the urinary system, there will be corresponding symptoms, generally the main symptoms of urinary tract infection are frequent urination, urinary urgency, painful urination, and some patients will also have the performance of pus flowing from the urethra.  If the routine urine examination reveals white blood cells, and then like the corresponding symptoms of urinary tract infection, the initial diagnosis can be confirmed, and then you can choose the corresponding drugs for standard anti-infection treatment, generally bacterial infection caused by the choice of cephalosporin antibiotics or levofloxacin, if it is mycoplasma infection, you also need to consider the choice of azithromycin.  If you find elevated white blood cells in the routine urine examination, you must pay attention to it, need further examination to clarify the cause, and then standardize the treatment, usually pay attention to the good habit of drinking more water and urinating more.