
Suggest Treatment For Intermittent UTI

Culture sensitivity testing needed
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There is no point in prescribing empirical antibiotic therapy if one doesn't know the specific bacteria to be targeted.
In addition if resistance is a concern I always try to use combination empiric therapy in patients presenting with urinary tract infections.
Urine culture and sensitivity testing should be done to isolate the drugs to which the bugs are sensitive. thereafter optimum dose therapy should be followed.
Let me know if you have any query.
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Hello again.
Culture and Sensitivity testing. A culture is done to find out what kind of organism (usually bacteria) is causing an infection. A sensitivity test checks to see what kind of medicine, such as an antibiotic, will work best to treat the infection.
Yes, its a test of the urine sample. If you are experience urgency, frequency and burning urination, flank pain along with pyuria, RBCs on routine examination of urine then its likely that you used the wrong empiric antibiotics that failed to eradicate the infection.
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