Urinary tract infections
If you think you have an urinary tract infections, call your transplant team or regular doctor at once. It is important to get your urine tested as soon as you have symptoms. You need to have both a urinanalysis (rapid test) and a urine culture. Remember that the urinanalysis may not always show an infection in a transplant patient. This is due to the transplant drugs. If you have urinary tract infections symptoms, ask your doctor if you can start treatment while you wait for the results of the urine culture, even if the urinanalysis is normal. Medicine can be changed if needed when the culture results come in.
Don't forget that some antibiotics may react with your transplant drugs. Always discuss this with the doctor.
If you get a lot of urinary tract infections after having sex, talk with your doctor about ways to prevent them. Some women need to take an antibiotics, either after sex or every night. Your doctor and transplant nurse can help you find the method that works best for you.
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