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The Urinary System
Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) Clinical features, Diagnosis, Management, Prognosis, Nutrition, Herbs, forum The urinary track, like the respiratory and digestive tracts, ends on the body surface and therefore can never be sterile throughout its length. However, when the tract is anatomically and physiologically normal and local and systemic defence mechanisms are intact, microorganisms are confined to the lower end of the urethra and urine in the bladder should be sterile. In other words normal urinary tract is reasonable resistant to bacterial invasion and several factors may contribute to this:
Urinary tract infection is associated with multiplication of micro organisms in the urinary tract and is defined the presence of more than a 100,000 organisms per mL 105/mL) in the midstream sample f urine. such infections are much more common in women (50 times more common than in men) and most are ascending infections originating in the lower urethra. factors that may facilitate the ascent of organisms into bladder in women are possibly:
In males urinary tract infections are uncommon except in the first year of life (immature immune system) and in those over 60 in whom urinary tract obstruction due to prostatic hypertrophy is relatively common, causes stasis of urine in the bladder. UTIs can appear in various form, depending on the affected part of the urinary system:
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Nutrition < BACK TO TOP > Nutrition that alleviate or prevent urinary tract infections :- Herbs < BACK TO TOP > Herbs that alleviate or prevent urinary tract infections :- (source :
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