Symptoms and the related factors of urinary infections in infants from 1 to 60 months of age
- Author:
To Van Hai
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
urinary infection
- MeSH:
Urinary Tract Infections;
Infant;
Child;
diagnosis
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2003;454(6):7-10
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
All 566 infants from 1-60 months of age treated at Thanh Nhan Hospital in the period Nov. 2001 – August 2002 underwent a culture of urine, among them 45 were infected urinarily (7.95%) with common symptoms such as fever, urinary disturbances. Their paraclinical signs were an increase of blood sedimentation, increase of neutrophile mononuclear white blood cells, in almost urinary proteins, urinary white blood cells were appeared; the younger age the higher rate of urinary infection (64.44% among 1-24 months of age subjects), the rate infection in boys is higher than in girls, in rural this rate is higher than urban subjects. In most urinary infections, there is a combination with other various conditions such as acute glomerulo-nephritis, fever with unknown causes, diarrhoea, especially in malnutritions infants
