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How do I know if things are worse?
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Nov 8 2:08pm | Replies (20)Comment receiving replies
@ocdogmom my husband has had 2 hospital visits with symptoms that indicate uti but both were negative. The first showed E. coli in blood that required 12 days of I V antibiotics. 20 days later same symptoms, frequent urination and weak and confused, negative ua once again. Possible pneumonia? No symptoms. So confusing.
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My husband is having recurrent UTIs now - the previous 3 times he went to the doctor, the urine tests were negative, despite symptoms. But they sent the sample off to the lab to be cultured the 3rd time, and it came back positive for 3 strains of a wet antibiotic resistant bacteria (meaning only a couple of antibiotics would work - and they weren’t the antibiotics the doctor had prescribed in case there really was a UTI that the test missed.) It’s not unusual to have a negative urine test but still have a UTI - that’s why they need to grow out the urine culture at the lab to see what bacteria are there in order not to miss the infection and to target the treatment more effectively. Reliance on the in-office urine test alone isn’t enough.