Cystitis

Inflammation of the bladder, called by another cystitis - is an infectious inflammatory disease of the bladder, very often the mucosa - the inner cell layer. Usually this disease affects women, it affects men much more rarely. This is due to certain anatomical features in the female body - the location of the urethra, shorter and broader, next to the opening of the rectum and the vagina, so microorganisms of various origins penetrate to the vagina much easier, hence the emerging bladder diseases.

The causes for which inflammation of the bladder begins, are called the most different. This trihomonaady, and E. coli, and chlamydia, as well as staphylococcus, and proteus.

Inflammation of the bladder can also begin as a result of the disease of another organ of the genitourinary system of the human body, as well as it can be caused by trauma, such as taking a smear for analysis, defloration, radiation, pregnancy or childbirth.

Sometimes inflammation of the bladder can be triggered by the use of such food, which irritates the mucous membrane of both the stomach and the bladder - it is salty, spicy, pickled food, alcohol.

Symptoms of inflammation of the bladder are as follows: itching, burning, pain and discomfort during urination, turbid or bloody urine, sometimes with secretion of pus, frequent urination in small amounts, false urges to it, urinary incontinence, a constant feeling of full bladder. Usually, cystitis is accompanied by pain during sexual intercourse, lack of orgasm. Sometimes the patient raises the temperature, there is weakness in the body.

Cystitis is of two types - acute and chronic.

Acute is an inflammation that starts suddenly, immediately after a short while after provocation, and is characterized by frequent urination accompanied by pain, changes in the appearance of urine, and a temperature increase. Usually this type of disease with proper treatment passes in two weeks.

If this does not happen, then there is chronic cystitis, which is much weaker than acute, the symptoms are almost the same, but the treatment lasts much longer.

As a rule, the diagnosis of inflammation of the bladder is not difficult - it is the collection of anamnesis and clinical picture. At a chronic current of this illness the laboratory analysis of urine and blood is spent. With the help of cystoscopy, the doctor determines the degree and cause of affection of the walls of this organ.

To a patient suffering from inflammation of the bladder, the doctor prescribes antibacterial therapy. Sometimes, in the presence of severe pain, it becomes necessary to take analgesics.

A typical patient is recommended bed rest, a dairy diet, a plentiful intake of drinking, including tea with diuretics. Successful treatment involves eliminating the cause of this disease. To do this, the doctor prescribes a specific course of antibiotics, sometimes - washing the bladder.

Prevention of primary bladder inflammation involves personal hygiene, timely access to a doctor. It is necessary to avoid hypothermia, not to be nervous, to avoid injuries to the genito-urinary organs.

Without the appointment of a doctor, it is not recommended to use any pill for inflammation of the bladder, except to relieve acute pain, because Treatment of this disease can be prescribed only by a urologist, a timely appeal to which will help eliminate all signs of cystitis without any residual complications.

Usually in women, the cystitis treatment is carried out jointly by the urologist and gynecologist. In this case it is necessary to identify infections that can be transmitted sexually.