What Does The Following Test Report While Recovering From UTI Indicate?

Posted on Thu, 16 Mar 2017

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Question : Earlier UTI. Took Faronem 200 mg BD x 12 days. Urine culture showed no growth. and again with a gap of 5 days took thesame medicinew for BD x7 days. Now urine culture shows E.Coli grown as 10,000 colony/mL . What is to be done ?

Answered by Dr. Nishad BN (3 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Switching on to Nitrofurantoin antibiotic will be helpful.

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

Thank you for asking HealthcareMagic.

I have gone through your query and reports. You need to take another antibiotic course. According to your current culture and sensitivity report, you can take Nitrofurantoin. This is a prescription antibiotic. If you were my patient then I would put on Nitrofurantoin 100mg twice daily for 10 days.

This will be helpful to clear your present infection.

Let me know if anything not clear.
I'll be happy to help you.
Thanks

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Arnab Banerjee

Follow up: Dr. Nishad BN (21 hours later)

Thanks doctor. I am satisfied fully with the medical advice.

One more clarification needed.

Which food is preferred to be taken during the medication and afterwards. And which food should be avoided ?

Please advice.

Regards.
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Answered by Dr. Nishad BN (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
High protein food should be avoided.

Detailed Answer:
Welcome again.

Thank you for your follow up.

High protein foods like meat,lentils etc should be avoided.
Taking barley water, cranberry juice is good to recover from infection faster.
You can have rice. Better to avoid wheat and wheat based foods.
Water melons and water melon juices is also good.

Hope this may help you. Let me know if anything not clear.
Thanks.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Arnab Banerjee