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What Causes Lower Right Abdominal Pain And Body Chills?
Question: My 70 year old husband is having lower right abdominal pain and chills -does not have a fever-no constipation.
He wonders about liver or appendicitus
He wonders about liver or appendicitus
Brief Answer:
Classic UTI, Visit ER and Get a Rx
Detailed Answer:
Thank you for asking!
At age of 70 such presentation of chills and lower quadrant pain is a classic one for UTI. Get your husband to ER get a urine routine examination done and it will be clear for sure and will confirm my suspicions. After that some prescription of antibiotics and some precautions would work.
It is said that drinking plenty of water is the best way to get rid of the organisms and clearing the pathway of them. SO drink as much fluid as you can, At least 12 to 16 glasses of water a day.
Then comes the role of hygiene, Front to back unidirectional wiping , using hot saline baths, sits baths, Avoiding unnecessary douchings, Not using Beauty soaps or perfumes down there, Good toilet hygiene, Post coital voiding immediately, avoiding unnecessary manual or digital or lingual manipulation of the area to avoid troubles.
Recently Use of Cranberry juices 10-12 ounces daily work like charm. These juices have proanthracyclins in them which doest allow organisms to stick to the pathway epithelium and thus decrease the predispositions to infections.
Those who have trouble with pain during micturition can get relief from bladder analgesic like Phenazopyridine if Sulfa allergies are not the problem.
Recent use of Intra bladder Instillations of Hyaluronic acids and chondroitin sulfates have proved very efficient.
Rest the antibiotics like quinolones, cephalosporins an. penicillin, sulfonamides and aminoglycosides with other symptomatic treatment is advised after being prescribed. Symptomatic treatment is used like antispasmodics like phloroglucinols or hyoscine etc and simple analgesics like acetaminophen etc suffice.
I hope it helps. Take good care of your husband and get him to ER. Don't forget to close the discussion please.
Regards
S Khan
Classic UTI, Visit ER and Get a Rx
Detailed Answer:
Thank you for asking!
At age of 70 such presentation of chills and lower quadrant pain is a classic one for UTI. Get your husband to ER get a urine routine examination done and it will be clear for sure and will confirm my suspicions. After that some prescription of antibiotics and some precautions would work.
It is said that drinking plenty of water is the best way to get rid of the organisms and clearing the pathway of them. SO drink as much fluid as you can, At least 12 to 16 glasses of water a day.
Then comes the role of hygiene, Front to back unidirectional wiping , using hot saline baths, sits baths, Avoiding unnecessary douchings, Not using Beauty soaps or perfumes down there, Good toilet hygiene, Post coital voiding immediately, avoiding unnecessary manual or digital or lingual manipulation of the area to avoid troubles.
Recently Use of Cranberry juices 10-12 ounces daily work like charm. These juices have proanthracyclins in them which doest allow organisms to stick to the pathway epithelium and thus decrease the predispositions to infections.
Those who have trouble with pain during micturition can get relief from bladder analgesic like Phenazopyridine if Sulfa allergies are not the problem.
Recent use of Intra bladder Instillations of Hyaluronic acids and chondroitin sulfates have proved very efficient.
Rest the antibiotics like quinolones, cephalosporins an. penicillin, sulfonamides and aminoglycosides with other symptomatic treatment is advised after being prescribed. Symptomatic treatment is used like antispasmodics like phloroglucinols or hyoscine etc and simple analgesics like acetaminophen etc suffice.
I hope it helps. Take good care of your husband and get him to ER. Don't forget to close the discussion please.
Regards
S Khan
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