Urinary Tract Wellness & UTI Prevention in Females Ages 18-30

Urinary Tract Wellness & UTI Prevention in Females Ages 18-30

Introduction

A urinary tract infection (UTI) occurs when bacteria enters the urinary tract. Urinary tract includes the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. Urine is produced in the kidneys, ureter and flows to the bladder. Urine leaves the bladder through the urethra. A urinary tract infection is less common and affects bladder and urethra (Lane and Takhar, 2011).

The common symptoms of Urinary Tract Infection include pain while urinating or frequent urinate, pain in lower abdomen, bloody urine. In case of an infection occurs in kidney, women may have pain in their back or stomach, fever and vomiting or it may be possible that the patient doesn't feel any symptom. The infection can be diagnosed with the help of urine test through which urine sample is to be sent to laboratory for examination (Bhat, et al. 2011).

Significance

Infections of the lower urinary tract in women are among the most common diseases particularly among 10% of women of childbearing age and most frequently become acute cystitis. Risk factors for infections of the lower urinary tract in women are anatomical and physiological characteristics of the body, often accompanied by gynecological diseases, genetic predisposition, the intensity of sexual activity, contraceptive used and sexually transmitted diseases.

Clinical signs include frequent painful urination, urgency to urinate, pain with prolonged disease course including dyspareunia. For diagnosis and management of patients further recommend a thorough clinical examination, including vaginal examination (gynecologist consultation), the overall analysis and urine culture, the exclusion of infections, sexually transmitted diseases, ultrasound of the kidneys and bladder and biopsy.

Morbidity and Mortality

Urinary tract infections are the most common infections of the human organism. Up to age 50 Age girls or women are more often affected than boys or men. Distinguishable from a urinary tract infection, is a so-called irritable bladder. A typical symptom of overactive bladder is strong and frequent urge to urinate, but is only a little urine is excreted. Partly it comes to involuntary urination (urinary incontinence) or even abdominal pain. In an irritable bladder, there is no indication of an infection (womenshealth.gov, 2013).

Current Best Practice

For good and responsible care to offer, the nurse seeks to evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice is the careful, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence and evidence to make decisions with individual patients to improve care. The practice of evidence-based practice means integrating individual professional knowledge of nursing with the wishes and preferences of the patient and the best external evidence from systematic research is available. Preferences, wishes and expectations of the patient are the central role. The original evidence-based medicine is extended to evidence-based practice, emphasizes that it is not exclusively about the medical professions, but also to other professionals (Curtis, et al. 2011).

Evidence-based practice for nurses includes concrete tools for applying the methodology of evidence-based practice in the daily practice of nursing. In the first part the principles of evidence-based practice describe the methodology ...