6 UTI Symptoms in Babies and Toddlers That Parents Should Know

The Urinary Tract Infection or UTI normally can be found in adults or older people especially woman. However the real things is, the uti are also found in babies and toddlers. The big problem is, it is hard to determine the uti symptoms in babies. For many babies, an unexplained fever is the only symptom. It has been found that 5 percent of babies and toddler who have a fever without other symptoms have a uti. The biggest problem of uti in babies was, many cases of UTIs in babies and toddlers has no sign or shows no uti symptoms at all. After do 1 and half minutes of reading and googling through internet, i would like to share a 6 common uti symptoms in babies and toddlers.

Crying and Urination Pain Indication

The only sign of uti symptoms in children that easily detect is by alerting on their emontions. Be sensitive when you notice your baby crying strange than usual. It may show their feeling on pain during urinating.

Urine Smelling

Be alert on the toddlers urine too. Strange smell of the babies or toddler urine may become as the uti symptoms of these infection.

Cloudy and Reddish Urine

Mostly, babies are wearing diapers and it is hard to determine the texture or the condition of their urine. The other alternative are depends on the parents whereas limited on using disposable diapers. Cloudy or reddish colour of the urine condition and colour may the symptoms of uti.

Refuse to Eat

Don't take easy when your baby refuse to eat. Especially when it suddenly happen or never happen

before. This sign also are the main symptoms of uti in children.

Vomiting

Some of babies or toddler may vomit after eat a lot or their stomach was full. This condition may not the sign of uti symptoms. However, when your babies vomiting after few hours eating or before

eating time, be aware on this condition.

Persistent Irritability

Other symptoms of uti are persistent irritability or on the other words, continuously bad mood or

feeling uncomfortable almost all the time.

Conclusion

If you noticed that your babies and toddlers shows the above symptoms, your should take an immediate action regarding on this,Call your baby's doctor as fast as possible. Urinary tract infections of UTI normally easily to cure, but if you do nothing or no action regarding on this, it may cause kidney failure and kidney permanently damage. Doctors say children under age 2 are more likely than older children to suffer serious damage, so it's important to catch and treat the condition as soon as possible.

Common UTI Symptoms In Children That We Should Aware

Mostly know that UTI or Urinary Tract Infection normally and mostly attack an adults woman rather than men. However, the reality was children also have a high probability on being infected by this types of bladder infection. In United States, their statistics shows that Urinary Tract Infections affect about 3 percent of children there. That's why we should be aware about this matter beside at least know what is the common symptoms of UTI in children. Here, i would like to stress more on the common UTI symptoms in children for our references.

The first we should now is who is the risk for this infection. Based on the recorded statistic, throughout childhood, the girls has higher probability on being infected than boys. It has said that boys who are younger than 6 months old who are not circumcised are at greater risk for a UTI than circumcised boys the same age 1.

The Common UTI Symptoms In Children

The symptoms of a UTI in children are commonly feel burning with urination and bad smelling urine plus fever. Sometimes a child with a UTI may show no symptoms at all. Normally when UTI occur it cause an irritation of the lining or surface of the bladder, urethra, ureters, and kidneys, just as the inside of the nose or the throat becomes irritated with a cold. The biggest problem on determine the symptoms if UTI in children is when they are infants or 1-3 years old, they are unable to talk. The only way on suspecting the present of this infection is by alert the children condition, They may have a high fever, be irritable, refuse to eat and frequently crying.

Other symptoms, the children may have only a middle fever, experience nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and look unhealthy as usual. Children who have a high fever and appear sick for more than a day without signs of a runny nose or other obvious cause for discomfort should be diagnosed for UTI.

Other UTI symptoms in children are, the children which are more than 3 years old and able to talk, may complaining of pain in the middle and below abdomen. They may frequently urinate. They also crying and complaining on feeling much hurt while urinate. They also urinate only a few drop of urine. Children may leak their urine into their pants,clothes and bedsheets. Their urine may look cloudy and sometimes reddish in colour. 

Conclusion

Even though, most UTIs are not serious, but delaying in treating this infection can lead the serious infection especially when the infection spreading to the children kidney. When our children showed anyone of the above symptoms discussed, Quickly see the specialist medical care doctor for UTI test.