What are the common symptoms of urinary tract infection in girls?

Urinary tract infection refers to a bacterial infection in the urinary system. Urinary tract infection can occur in men, women, young or old. The common symptoms for everyone are urinary pain, frequent urination, urgency, etc. Urinary tract infections are also divided into different types depending on how the infection occurs. Some infections are more likely to occur in women, while others are more likely to occur in men. This is due to the different physiological structures of men and women. What are the symptoms of urinary tract infection in women?

The clinical manifestations of urinary tract infection are quite wide. Urinary tract infection can be divided into pyelonephritis, cystitis, and urethritis according to the site of infection; it can be divided into complicated and uncomplicated urinary tract infection according to the presence or absence of functional or organic abnormalities in the urinary tract; and it can be divided into acute and chronic urinary tract infection according to the nature of the inflammation. Urinary tract infections include urethritis, cystitis, and pyelonephritis. Its main clinical manifestations are urinary tract irritation symptoms, namely frequent urination, urgency, pain, discomfort during urination, and lower abdominal discomfort. Urine examination usually shows white blood cells and red blood cells, and some may even show macroscopic hematuria. If pyelonephritis is also often accompanied by low back pain and fever.

However, urinary tract infection still has its common clinical manifestations:

1. Routine blood test may show elevated white blood cells.

2. Routine urine examination may show white blood cells, red blood cells or even protein.

3. Systemic poisoning symptoms, such as fever, chills, headache, etc. It is mainly seen in patients with upper urinary tract infection, especially acute urinary tract infection and patients with urinary tract obstruction.

4. Urinary tract irritation symptoms, namely frequent urination, urgency, pain, and discomfort during urination. These symptoms may vary in severity in different patients. Patients with acute inflammation often have obvious signs of urinary tract irritation; but in the elderly, children and patients with chronic urinary tract infection, the symptoms of urinary tract irritation are usually mild, such as mild frequent urination, or urgency, or discomfort in urination.

As you can see from the above, when a urinary tract infection occurs, the white blood cell count increases, which can cause fever, headache and other phenomena in our body. Discomfort during urination is the most common urinary tract irritation. When women have a urinary tract infection, they should also pay attention to vaginal discharge, as this may lead to cross-infection and vaginitis. Seek early treatment and pay attention to hygiene.