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Urinary Tract Infection Treatment
How is a urinary tract infection (UTI) treated?
Antibiotics can cure most UTIs.
- Bladder infections.
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Treatment for bladder infections is usually a mix of antibiotics and home treatment. Home treatment includes drinking lots of water and fluids and urinating often.
- Kidney infections.
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Antibiotics usually can treat kidney infections. But you may need a brief hospital stay and a short course of I.V. antibiotics if you're too ill or sick to your stomach to take medicine by mouth.
Your doctor may advise you to take medicine for symptoms like pain or burning. This medicine is called phenazopyridine. You can buy it without a prescription. But it doesn't treat the infection. You'll still need antibiotics. Don't use this medicine for flank pain or kidney infections.
If your UTI doesn't improve after you take antibiotics, you'll need more evaluation and more antibiotic treatment.
If you have a severe kidney infection, or if a bladder or kidney infection causes other problems, you may need hospital care.