Patients with urinary tract infection, these examination items must be known!

Urinary tract infection is a disease with obvious symptoms, so it is easier to be discovered. However, some people in life will pretend to ignore these symptoms even if they see them, thus missing the best time for treatment. The editor recommends that once the relevant symptoms of urinary tract infection are found, it is necessary to seek medical treatment in time for diagnosis. What are the examination items for urinary tract infection?

1. Urine routine

Urinalysis is the most widely used and simplest examination method in clinical practice. Although it has no diagnostic value for urinary tract infection, it can often be used as a basis for clinical doctors to make a preliminary diagnosis of urinary tract infection in combination with clinical symptoms. Addy count is one of the methods of urine sediment microscopy and can be used as an auxiliary examination of urinalysis.

2. Urine bacterial culture

Urine bacterial culture is a diagnostic test for urinary tract infection. Only a positive urine bacterial culture can diagnose urinary tract infection, otherwise the diagnosis cannot be established. Urine bacterial culture and drug sensitivity test are of great reference value for the selection of antibiotics during treatment.

3. Kidney and bladder ultrasound and X-ray examination

Patients with suspected other complications or suspected urinary tract infection may undergo kidney and bladder ultrasound, X-ray examination (including abdominal plain film, intravenous pyelography), and even CT examination to rule out renal tuberculosis, urinary tract stones, hydronephrosis, renal cysts, renal tumors, urinary tract malformations, etc.

4. Check kidney function regularly

For patients who are uncertain whether they have an upper or lower urinary tract infection, checking the antibody-coated cells (ACB), urine lysozyme, β2 microglobulin, etc. in urine sediment has certain clinical significance. Patients with recurrent and persistent urinary tract infections should have their kidney function checked regularly.