Why do women get UTIs?

Not only women can get UTI, men can also get UTI, only the incidence of women is higher, which is related to women’s special physiological anatomical structure, women have menstruation, after the menopause, women’s body estrogen levels decline and many other factors. 1. Physiological anatomy: women’s special physiological anatomy causes women to be more prone to urethritis, women’s urethra is short and straight, so it is easy for bacterial retrograde infection; and women’s urethral opening is adjacent to the vagina and anus, which contain a lot of bacteria, so it is also easy to invade the urethra, and urethritis occurs. 2. Menstruation: women will have menstruation, menstrual blood is a very good bacterial culture medium, so the presence of menstruation also leads to women prone to UTI. 3. Decrease in estrogen level: After menopause, the endocrine hormones in women’s bodies will change, and the decrease in estrogen level and the decrease in urethral resistance will also lead to women’s susceptibility to UTI. Female urethritis may also be caused by other factors, it is recommended that the patient go to a regular hospital in time to ask the doctor to be treated, so as not to delay the condition.