The effectiveness of treatment with medication for unclean urinary tract infections is determined by the severity of the condition, such as acute pyelonephritis, acute cystitis and urethritis, and in some cases it is necessary to work with intravenous medication to achieve the best results. The duration of treatment ranges from 3 days to 14 days or even longer.
1. Acute pyelonephritis: quinolone, penicillin, cephalosporin, treatment should be individualized, the course of treatment for 7 to 14 days, intravenous drugs can be changed to oral maintenance after the body temperature is normal, clinical symptoms improve, urine bacterial culture becomes negative.
2. Acute cystitis: use compound sulfamethoxazole, cephalosporins, quinolones and other drugs. Preferred 3-day therapy, for symptoms lasting 1 week or more and may have complicating factors in patients can choose 7-day therapy.
3. UTI: and oral quinolones, cephalosporins, minocycline, erythromycin or compound sulfamethoxazole, generally 7 to 14 days for a course of treatment, the spouse should be treated simultaneously.
Unclean sexual urinary tract infection should go to the hospital, do not avoid medical treatment, self medication may delay the condition, the use of drugs need to follow the doctor’s instructions.