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Investigations Urinary tract infections are often misdiagnosed
Many women are familiar with the problem of cramping pain in urinary urgency and urinary symptoms. Most of the time, a urinary tract infection is quickly suspected. However, researchers found out in an investigation that often wrong diagnoses are made.
Violent urinary symptoms
Especially many women know the problem of cramping pain in urinary urgency and urinary problems. Frequent urination / urination constantly force them to the toilet, it burns and hurts. If urination becomes so uncomfortable, it is easy to suspect that you have contracted a bladder infection or an infection of the urinary tract. Or maybe a sexually transmitted disease? The "Welt am Sonntag" reported online that scientists have found that often wrong diagnoses are made in this context.
Often in a urinary tract infection falsely bacteria are suspected as the cause, although chlamydia or other pathogens are behind the complaints. (Image: Gerhard Seybert / fotolia.com) Over half of the diagnoses wrong
Thus, microbiologists revisited the diagnoses and urine samples of 264 women who had come to a hospital in the city of Cleveland, USA, as they could no longer endure the pain. The researchers found that a large part of the diagnoses were wrong. Thus, 175 women had been confirmed to have a urinary tract infection, but only in 84 of these women were actually found bacteria that cause such an infection. More than half of the diagnoses were wrong.
Pathogens at urine test not easy to distinguish
According to the data, 60 of the 264 patients were infected with chlamydia or the sexually transmitted diseases causing gonorrhea or trichomoniasis. However, 22 of them had not noticed the same. According to the researchers, the diseases are not easy to distinguish in a quick urine test. As it is said, one can only find out which germ is really behind the symptoms, if one creates a bacterial culture in the sample. And only then can you prescribe the appropriate antibiotics or medicines. However, it does not always have to be such drugs. So Prof. Dr. Kurt G. Naber, urologist and former chief physician of the Urological Clinic in the St. Elisabeth Hospital, Straubing, in a press release last year that in a urinary tract infection natural medicine instead of antibiotics is often the better solution. (Ad)