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Suggest Treatment For Kidney Infections

Posted on Fri, 27 Feb 2015

Question: My now wife had kidney failure during a pregnancy 3 years ago. Since then she has had two kidney infections that go away with antibiotics. What does this say about the future dor her kidneys? Removal? Failure? Etc.

Answered by Dr. Avinash Ignatius (21 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Recurrent UTI

Detailed Answer:
Women are more prone to developing UTI, due to a shorter urethral length. However, 2 infections in 3 years is not very frequent.

The possibility of developing renal problems is difficult to predict, esp. if she had acute renal failure and it recovered completely. It will to some extent depend also on the severity of renal failure and the duration of renal failure before recovery.

If her renal function has recovered completely the chances of future development of renal failure are slim and there is no need of removal of kidneys.

Warm regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Ashwin Bhandari

Follow up: Dr. Avinash Ignatius (30 minutes later)

Well, what causes a kidney infection and how can you prevent them? Are certain people's genes just more prone to them?

Answered by Dr. Avinash Ignatius (26 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Women are more prone due to shorter urinary passage

Detailed Answer:
Shorter urinary passage makes them more prone to UTI.

usually organisms travel from the perineum via the urinary tract.

drinking plenty of water to get a urine flow of about 2 -2.5 Lit per day .

Avoiding prolonged holding of urine as this may result infection

Genetics does play a role but it influence is marginal..

warm regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T