Traditional Chinese medicine treatment for intractable urinary tract infections

       Urinary tract infection is a common clinical disease, manifested as urinary pain, urinary urgency, urinary frequency, urinary residual leachate and other urinary tract irritation symptoms, clinical mostly seen in women. However, with the increase of various social functions for men in modern life, long-term and continuous drinking, irregular life and other factors leading to a decline in body resistance, the number of male urinary tract infection patients is also increasing.  The cause of this disease is mostly retrograde infection of E. coli through the urinary tract, the standard treatment should be to take the first morning urine for the middle urine culture, according to the results of the culture drug sensitivity test to select the appropriate antimicrobial treatment for 7-10 days, three days after stopping the drug for two consecutive negative urine culture is considered clinically cured.  However, some patients, in order to save time and convenience, do not do urine culture and directly use antimicrobial treatment, treatment for 3-5 days after the relief of symptoms also do not check to stop the medication, which is easy to make bacteria resistance, resulting in urinary tract infection lingering difficult to heal, or recurrent episodes of recalcitrant urinary tract infection.  The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on this. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for a long time.  Chinese medicine believes that this disease belongs to the category of “gonorrhea”, the root cause of its persistence is that the bladder is attacked by external evil, local stagnation of Qi and blood leads to a decrease in bladder mucosa resistance, the formation of the pathological mechanism of deficiency mixed with reality.  The idea of Chinese medicine in treating this disease is not only to inhibit the reproduction of bacteria, but also to improve the anti-adhesion ability of the bladder mucosa, so that the local qi and blood flow will be restored, and the symptoms will be removed.  The author observed that for persistent urinary tract infections that have used many antibiotics, antibiotic treatment should be stopped and standardized Chinese medicine dialectical treatment can also make the urine culture turn negative and play a role that antibiotics cannot achieve, thus completely curing persistent urinary tract infections.