Urinary Tract Infection and Kidney Cyst

2014-08-14 06:01

Small kidney cyst can be left alone if it causes no kidney damages and physical discomforts. But in some cases, patients may find they have frequent UTI (urinary tract infection) after the diagnosis. Why is this? Is there any link between them?

Kidney cyst is a fluid collection in kidney and may appear in any part of kidney. It can be inside the kidney and also the outer part of kidney. In some cases, cyst grow near to the ureter and this may affect urine flow. Urinary tract infection occurs easily in such a case. This is the reason why some kidney cyst patients have frequent urinary tract infection, and some do not. Another cause of urinary tract infection in kidney cyst is rupture of kidney cyst and this is usually accompanied with severe back pain and blood in urine.

For kidney cyst patients with mild urinary tract infection, drinking much more water helps to flush bacterium in the urinary tract out of the body and patients can get remission by drinking more water. But in serious cases, antibiotics will be needed; otherwise, kidney infection or some other further health tissues will be caused. Well, how do we know if a kidney cyst is suffering from urinary tract infection?

Urinary tract infection is an infection that affects part of the urinary tract. It does not always cause signs and symptoms, but when it does, symptoms like pain feeling during urination, more frequent urination, urinary urgency, cloudy urine, bloody urine, lower abdominal pain and burning with urination will appear.

Lastly, in cases of kidney cyst, urinary tract infection is resulted from cysts in kidney, so when kidney cyst is removed or shrunk successfully, urinary tract infection problem is solved naturally. Therefore, treating kidney cyst is the fundamental way to deal with frequent urinary tract infection.

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