What is a urinary tract infection?



Urinary tract infection usually refers to the infection of kidney, bladder, ureter, urethra and other parts of the body, which is related to many factors, such as poor hygiene, unclean sex, indwelling catheter, urinary tract obstruction and so on.

1. Poor hygiene: not paying attention to the hygiene of the lower body in the daily life, resulting in the growth of bacteria in the urethral opening area, which may enter the urethra or bladder, and then it is easy to cause urethritis or cystitis and other infections of the urinary system.

2. Unclean sex: Frequent unclean sex in daily life can lead to the presence of gonococcus, mycoplasma, chlamydia and other pathogenic bacterial infections in the urethra, which can easily cause urinary tract infections.

3. indwelling catheter: long time indwelling catheter, bacteria may enter the catheter, and induce infection, should be regularly replaced catheter, reduce the probability of infection.

4. Urinary tract obstruction: for example, prostate hyperplasia, urinary stones, may lead to excessive retention of urine in the bladder, retention time is too long, easy to breed bacteria, will cause urinary tract infections.

Therefore, in the daily should do a good job of protective measures, pay attention to the lower body hygiene, to avoid the existence of unclean sex, the existence of urinary tract obstruction, should be timely medical examination and treatment, to reduce the incidence of urinary tract infection disease probability.