A kidney infection is a type of urinary tract infection. The kidneys are the upper part of the urinary tract – they can become infected, just like most organs in the body. Infections of the kidney are known as pyelonephritis. Pylenonephritis can be an extremely painful experience. In addition to pain, there are other common ...
Each year it is estimated that over 12 million people worldwide suffer from a common genetic disorder known as Polycystic kidney disease, PKD. As a life threatening complication, those who suffer from PKD often experience complications beginning in early adulthood but, in rare cases, kidney complications may appear in some during the first year of ...
Unfortunately I write this with first-hand knowledge. Recently, my 3-month-old daughter was hospitalized with a severe kidney infection. I and my husband spent three long and scary days at the hospital trying to get Samarrah feeling better. It started out with Sam just feeling a little warmer than usual. She acted fine. She was still ...
The truth is, there is no living with chronic kidney infections. Or, should I say, there is no life with chronic kidney infections. There is always something there to stop you from doing the things you love, or the things you want to try. There is always that persistent flank pain whether you actually have ...
A kidney infection can be more than an uncomfortable nuisance; it can be downright fatal if left untreated. Kidney infection symptoms that are not taken care of can cause blood poisoning or kidney failure both of which can possibly result in death. Fortunately the symptoms of a kidney infection are easy to recognize once you ...
Being a full-time college student and often working full-time plus not living with my parents has made caffeine a very beneficial ingredient in my life, but that changed in 2003. I had always been told to stay away from caffeine when I had bladder or kidney infections and did. But what I didn’t know was ...
Many women talk about the two infections as if they are one and the same health problem. Even though a bladder infection can elevate into a kidney infection as well, they are two different health problems with different symptoms. A bladder infection or cystitis is an acute infection of the bladder including the urethra that ...
Gynecological problems are never a woman’s best friend. But what steps can you take to possibly avoid a potentially embarrassing trip to your physician? As much as we tell ourselves that our physicians deal with these types of issues everyday, it still isn’t always easy to confront your burning and itching questions with someone who ...
Bladder infections, sometimes called urinary tract infections or UTI, are common and usually harmless to the patients who get them. They are not STDs and are not something that you can “catch” from someone else. Although bladder infections can be uncomfortable, even painful, at times, they are easily treatable and go away without any lasting ...
