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What Are Effective Medicines For Treating UTI In Pregnancy?
My wife has been diagonosed with UTI due to E-Coli infection (colony size: 10 to power 5). She is 18 weeks pregnant. She was complaining of white particles of visible size in her urine since almost an year and the doctors advised several CUE and C&S during this period. In the last C&S she was detected with E-Coli growth.The doctor looked at her reports and suggested that she can take 7 days dose of Augmentin 750 & Citralka syrup (considering them safe during pregnancy). We got a repeat scan after the dosage completed. But she still was sensitive to same components and the growth was still the same. This time she was advised to take Taxim-0 200 alongwith Citralka for 10 days. She has already completed about 7 days of it but she still feels the same symptoms of UTI and has lot of white particles.>What might be the cause that she is not responding to the medication even though she is sensitive to it Also, is this something to worry about - can it harm the mother or the baby in any manner before or after birth by taking so many antibiotics?Please advice.
Mon, 13 Jun 2016
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the doctor has prescribed you the antibiotic which is safe in pregnancy,
if she is not responding then better get the urine culture and sensitivity repeated, you can talk to the doctor and put her on some iv antibiotics where the infection is cured faster, in normal cases we can wait and use the higher antibiotics but in pregnancy trying out with other higher drugs is not safe so get the safer medications for iv administration,
have lots of fluids, do sits bath which may intense the cure, take care.
welcome to health care magic
the doctor has prescribed you the antibiotic which is safe in pregnancy,
if she is not responding then better get the urine culture and sensitivity repeated, you can talk to the doctor and put her on some iv antibiotics where the infection is cured faster, in normal cases we can wait and use the higher antibiotics but in pregnancy trying out with other higher drugs is not safe so get the safer medications for iv administration,
have lots of fluids, do sits bath which may intense the cure, take care.
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