Kidneys are very important organs for the human body. It is responsible with the liquid level of the organism, and with its help wastes and surplus liquids are eliminated through urine. A known kidney infection is pyelonephritis which in most of the cases starts in the bladder. The bladder is part of the urinary system where urine is stored before being eliminated. There are two types of kidney infections acute and chronic. In the last case chances of kidney failure are high.



Combined with other medical problems such as diabetes and cancer, growth of prostate or kidney stones, these infections are harder to combat. The sources of infections can be various from internal tubes to catheters but the main cause are bacteria that travel through the urinary system to the kidneys and start multiplying.

Symptoms are various too. Fever, nausea, chills or back aches along with pain during urination are a few of the most common symptoms.

After a lab test, specialists prescribe treatment. Usually containing antibiotics normal treatment gives results. In special cases when the infection is progressive even if treatment is followed correctly, doctors use additional tests to find the cause and also the treatment.

Without proper treatment the infection may not disappear even though symptoms are lost.

When the ureter is blocked doctors have no other choice but surgery.

While being under treatment doctors apply different procedures for monitoring their patients and for curing them. Doctors take the patients vital signs pretty often to ensure that they are getting better. They measure temperature, pulse, respirations and blood pressure. With the help of the pulse oximeter doctors measure the oxygen from the blood. During medical observation doctors may advice you to remember the amount of liquid that you were drinking and the amount of urine eliminated.

If the infection does not cause bad symptoms antibiotics are enough for treatment. If not, other medicine should be prescribed, depending on the symptoms.

A special diet is indicated for persons who have kidney infections. Plenty of liquid drinking is recommended along with quitting cigars and alcohol.

Other ways of analyses are known in determining kidney infections. These procedures are intravenous pyelogram, which is an x-ray exam, and cystoscopy which is done with the help of cystoscope, that is a thin tube hooked with a camera that will be put in the urethra up into the bladder. This cystoscope will offer information about the existence or not of a kidney stone.

Even if you feel a lot better the doctors? recommendations should be followed. After leaving the hospital, the patients should continue drinking plenty of liquid, and should follow the treatment to its end.

When you're finished with taking pills go to the doctor again for another exam to ensure that the infection is gone.