How to effectively treat acute cystitis

Acute cystitis affects and troubles many people. Sometimes, symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency and stinging when urinating often occur. Therefore, if you want effective treatment, you must pay attention to the choice of methods. You should drink more water to increase urine volume and reduce urinary tract irritation. You must follow the doctor's advice on the use of some anti-inflammatory drugs.

1. Rest in bed, drink plenty of water, avoid irritating foods, and hot water sitz baths or hot compresses on the pubic bone can improve local blood circulation and relieve symptoms. Take alkaline drugs such as sodium bicarbonate or potassium citrate orally to alkalize urine and reduce irritation to the urinary tract. Flavonoids (Urinary Ling), belladonna, and atropine can relieve bladder spasms.

2. Choose appropriate antimicrobial drugs according to the genus of pathogenic bacteria. Before the drug sensitivity results are available, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, cephalosporins, and quinolones can be used. After treatment, the condition generally improves rapidly, pus cells in the urine disappear, and cell culture turns negative. Short-term 3-day therapy should be used as much as possible to avoid unnecessary long-term medication to prevent drug resistance or increase side effects, but measures to prevent recurrence should be strengthened. If the symptoms do not disappear, pus cells in the urine continue to exist, and the culture is still positive, bacterial resistance and infection triggers should be considered. More appropriate antimicrobial drugs should be adjusted in time and the application time should be extended in order to achieve a complete cure.

3. Postmenopausal women often suffer from urinary tract infections and are prone to reinfection. The lack of estrogen causes a decrease in lactobacilli in the vagina and an increase in the reproduction of pathogenic bacteria, which is an important factor in infection. Estrogen replacement therapy can maintain a normal vaginal environment, increase lactobacilli and eliminate pathogenic bacteria, thereby reducing the occurrence of urinary tract infections.

4. Eat more diuretic foods, such as watermelon, grapes, pineapple, celery, pears, etc.