Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are such a pain—literally. Flare-ups are marked by discomfort, pelvic pressure and an ...

Treatment nearly always requires antibiotic cream (eg fucidin) or in established or recurrent cases such as your son's, antibiotics by mouth for up to ten days. You do not say if he has had ...

Pyuria cannot be diagnosed with an office dipstick urine test. The treatment for pyuria depends on the cause. Most cases are caused by UTIs, which are treated with antibiotics. In most cases, ...

While the POC tool aims to provide quicker assessments of bacterial infections to guide immediate treatment decisions, the ID-ST culture solution can significantly reduce the time required for empiric ...

Typically a vaginal cream is applied every night for ... medication as way to prevent recurrent cystitis or UTIs, which is known as antibiotic prophylaxis therapy.

Taking probiotics between your Augmentin doses might help prevent or reduce mild diarrhea caused by the antibiotic ... such as hydrocortisone cream If your doctor confirms you’ve had a mild ...

He or she will typically perform a urine culture and prescribe a course of antibiotics to treat the UTI. Once the infection ...

Antibiotic selection, dosing, and route were at the discretion of the treating team. We excluded patients with severe immunosuppression, foci requiring prolonged treatment, single cultures with ...

Traditional UTI diagnostic tests, known as antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), uses a one-size-fits-all approach to determine which antibiotics are most effective against a specific bacterial ...

An international clinical trial involving Monash researchers – of more than 3600 patients in 74 hospitals – has shown that a traditional long course of antibiotics for bloodstream infection are not ...