A UTI is when bacteria gets into your urine and travels up to your bladder. As many as 8 in 100 of girls and 2 in 100 of boys will get UTIs. Young children have a greater risk of kidney damage linked to UTI than older children or adults.
Symptoms
Here are some signs of a UTI:
- Pain, burning, or a stinging feeling when urinating
- Urinating often or feeling an urgent need to urinate, even without passing urine
- Foul-smelling urine that may look cloudy or have blood in it
- Fever
- Pain in the low back or around the bladder
Vesicoureteral Reflux
Urine normally flows from the kidney down the ureters and into the bladder. This one-way flow is usually maintained because of a “flap-valve” where the ureter joins the bladder.
Urinary Obstruction
Urine flow may get blocked at many places in the urinary tract. These blockages are mostly caused by abnormal narrow areas in the urinary tract that prevent normal flow of urine out of the body.
Treatment
UTIs are treated with antibiotics. If your health care provider thinks your child has a UTI, he or she will choose a drug that treats the bacteria most likely to be causing the problem.
Reference:
https://www.urologyhealth.org/urologic-conditions/urinary-tract-infections-in-children