A survey of students in India suggests a cause of some urinary tract infections.
It’s been 11 years since 33-year-old Erica started suffering from urinary tract infections, or UTIs. Every time her doctors put her on antibiotics, she gets better—only to have the infection strike once again.
Doctors aren’t sure why Erica has a recurrent UTI, she says . But she attributes her first go around with the infection—which caused burning sensation while peeing, abdominal cramps, and frequent urination—to the fact that she was living in an unclean house with someone who was a hoarder.To this day, dirty bathrooms make her pretty squeamish.
UTIs are commonly caused when germs that live in your own gut enter the urethra, the opening to the urinary tract. This is the reason doctors recommend wiping your butt from front to back. Sex acts can also cause the bacteria living around the anus to shift to the urethra. Additionally, the vagina also can
UTI-causing bacteria. The issue here is really your own germs, not someone else’s that they left behind after doing their business.There is evidence that holding pee for long periods could cause UTIs, perhaps by allowing bacteria in the urinary tract to multiply. Apublished in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases in June this year describes a survey of 778 students staying in a hostel in Southern India’s Pondicherry.
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