05/01/2026
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A. What Is A Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)?
Most urinary tract infections (UTIs) arise from one type of bacteria, Escherichia coli (E. coli), which normally lives in the bowel.
Symptoms of a UTI in adults may include:
I. Frequent and an intense urge to urinate.
ii. Painful, burning feeling in the bladder or urethra during urination, etc.
Your urinary tract is the system in your body responsible for filtering wastes in your blood and excreting wastes out of the body.
Your urinary tract comprises your kidneys, ureters and bladder.
Once the kidneys and their nephrons filter excess wastes that have circulated through your body, they are then able to turn the excess waste products into urine. The urine flows out of your urethra, and out of your body.
B. Effects & Complications of a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) may include:
i. Recurrent infections, especially in women who experience three or more UTIs.
Ii. Permanent kidney damage from acute or chronic kidney infection (pyelonephritis) because of an untreated UTI.
iii. Increased risk in pregnant women of delivering low birth weight or premature infants.
iv. Urethral narrowing (stricture) in men from recurrent urethritis, previously seen with gonococcal urethritis.
v. Sepsis, a potentially life-threatening complication of an infection, especially if the infection works its way up your urinary tract to your kidneys.
C. Causes Of Urinary Tract Infections
You may develop a urinary tract infection because of:
1. Certain diseases or conditions - such as differences in your changes in the anatomy of your urinary tract. You may have born with these differences, or developed later on in your life secondary to surgery or trauma (injury)
2. If you have a lowered immune system because of chemotherapy or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Ii. Permanent kidney damage from acute or chronic kidney infection (pyelonephritis) because of an untreated UTI.
3. You are more at susceptible to the symptoms
