Neonatal Urinary Tract Infections

Neonatal Urinary Tract Infection

In 1918, Helmkolz realize that neonates urinary tract infection remains a hidden disease and the diagnosis often can not be enforced. Manifestations can range from asymptomatic bacteriuria to septicemia alone,
Bacteriuria is more common in male infants than in female infants to age less than 2 months. Two studies infants aged less than 3 months showed some 22% to 38% of infants of the same UTI are bacteria in the blood and in kanadung bladder.

Urinary tract infections are present in 7.5% of infants aged less than 8 weeks jaundice, no fever and no other complaints. Neonatal jaundice after 8 days of age or the presence of increased levels of conjugated bilirubin fraction tends to imply that the NUTI.
In neonates with a first UTI attack at the age of the first 8 weeks of acute renal cortical defect occurred and vesico urethral reflux.



The definition of urinary tract infection is an invasion of germs or no germs microorganisms into the lower urinary tract or upper.

Bacterial

Germs cause NUTI is Escherichia coli, Aerobacter, Klebsiella, Paeudomonas, Proteus, Enterococcus, Staphylococcus, Enterobacter, and others.

In children and adults, UTIs are estimated to occur most often after ascending urethral meatus contaminated by germs and infections rarely hematogenous kidney occurs.