My sister is 75 yrs. old, had a complete abdominal hysterectomy in March, 2005. She also has a present creatinine level of 2.5 due to past treatment with lithium, which affected the kidney. She has had urinary tract infections in the past year. The last one, her doctor prescribed Cipro, and when the cultured results came back, the doctor said the type infection she had required she be switched to Augmentin. After being treated with these, she went to see her
nephrologist, and he cultured her urine again, and found she still had an infection. He prescribed Cefpodoxine, 100 mgs., one tablet for 10 days. She has been off this for 9 days, and on the eight day she urinated and found
blood (pinkish red) on her pamper. It didn't go through, but appeared to be like one would experience during the first day of a period, except she's 75 yrs. old. It didn't recur again since yesterday, but I did contact her doctor's office and will try to bring her there Monday. Can you, in the meantime, give me an opinion on what may have caused this?