Keywords: urinary tract infections in children

    1. Hurried urinary tract infection is the course of six months. Symptoms vary by age and infection involving the site. Older children and adults are similar to younger more obvious systemic symptoms, local urinary irritation symptoms were mostly mild or easily overlooked.

    (1) the neonatal period: more than is caused by a blood infection. The severity of symptoms ranging from non-specific manifestations of systemic symptoms, such as fever, nurse poor, pale, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal distension. The majority of children with growth arrest, slow weight gain. Part of the sick children may have convulsions, drowsiness, sometimes visible jaundice. General partial voiding symptoms and more obvious, and therefore to increase vigilance for this disease, unexplained fever should try to make urine routine examination and quiet, blood cultures to confirm the diagnosis.

    (2) early childhood: still systemic symptoms, such as fever, Qingke repeated diarrhea. Urinary frequency, urgency, dysuria and other urinary symptoms increased with age gradually. Urination, crying, quiet frequency or intractable diaper rash should think of this disease. Even jaundice.

    (3) of childhood: more than only the performance of lower urinary tract infection urinary frequency, urgency, dysuria, urinary tract irritation, and sometimes have terminal hematuria and enuresis, and systemic symptoms are more obvious. Upper urinary tract infection, systemic symptoms and more obvious manifestations are fever, chills, malaise, may be associated with low back pain and kidney area percussion pain. May be associated with urinary irritation. Some patients may have hematuria, proteinuria, and edema and more obvious. Generally does not affect renal function. Such as the inadequate treatment of recurrent or urinary tract obstruction, deformity and other factors can become chronic.

    Chronic urinary tract infection refers to the duration of six months or more, the protracted illness. The severity of symptoms ranging from no obvious symptoms until renal failure (the first concentrated impaired). Repeated episodes showed intermittent fever, backache, fatigue, weight loss, anemia. Local lower urinary tract irritation may be no or intermittent. Pyuria and cells in the urine can be there or not obvious. Sick children and more merger silent reflux or congenital urinary tract structural abnormalities, kidney b-type ultrasonic inspection or intravenous pyelography visible scar, as early treatment may reduce kidney damage.