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What Causes Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection?

I had symptoms of bloating side front pain and abdominal pain, frequent urge to urinate , foul smelling cloudy urine last week. Went to urgent care and had a dipstick urinslysis which showed high leukocyte and white blood cells. The culture came back clear for bacterial growth. I took macrobid for 5 days and now am having the symptoms returning. Could it be a kidney stone passed or a kidney infection?
Why wild there be no growth if 1 day after I finished the antibiotics I am starting with symptoms again?
Wed, 22 Mar 2017
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Hi and welcome to Healthcaremagic. I understand your concerns.
You have all symptoms of urinary tract infection and if there are recurrent infections then some underlying cause may be present. It can be urinary stones but also, some resistant bacteria may persist so you need to do urinoculture to see if I am right so macrobid may not be sufficient.Also, some fungal infections or STDs may have similar clinical picture. To exclude kindey stones you should do kidneys ulrasound and rtg images.
I hope I have answered your query.
Kindly regards. Wish you a good health.
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What Causes Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection?

Hi and welcome to Healthcaremagic. I understand your concerns. You have all symptoms of urinary tract infection and if there are recurrent infections then some underlying cause may be present. It can be urinary stones but also, some resistant bacteria may persist so you need to do urinoculture to see if I am right so macrobid may not be sufficient.Also, some fungal infections or STDs may have similar clinical picture. To exclude kindey stones you should do kidneys ulrasound and rtg images. I hope I have answered your query. Kindly regards. Wish you a good health.