What you need to know about UTIs from Harvard medical experts

Dear Reader,

While UTIs are the most common infection in the United States, there are surprising facts you may not know — facts that could help you prevent this condition or facts that could prevent you from getting proper treatment.

If you’ve experienced a UTI, then you know that this burning, painful, uncomfortable condition is nothing to mess around with.

That’s why the health experts at Harvard Medical School have created a new online guide to help you protect your health and the health of your loved ones:

Urinary Tract Infection: What You Need to Know About This
Common Illness

Step-by-step, this practical Harvard online guide shows how a UTI starts and reveals the often-surprising ways to help prevent and treat a painful infection.

Practical Topics Thoroughly Covered in Urinary Tract Infection

• Signs and symptoms of UTIs

• Causes and risk factors

• UTIs at various life stages

• Diagnostic tests

• Complicated and uncomplicated UTIs

• Prevention and treatment

• Recurrent UTIs

• Antibiotic resistance and UTIs

• And more

You’ll learn about the little-known factors that increase risk at all ages … the variety of ways UTIs are diagnosed … the growing problem of antibiotic resistance and how it affects treatment for UTI … and more. More specifically, you’ll discover …

• Why it is so important to know the difference between a bladder infection and a kidney infection

• The little-known risk factors to contracting a life-threatening kidney infection

• The cream that reduces risk of UTI in older women

• When UTI risk increases in men — and the five major causes to guard against

• Why doctors may need an x-ray, ultrasound, or CT scan to diagnose a UTI.

• The difference between a complicated and uncomplicated UTI … and why the distinction is so important for proper treatment

• What doctors do if symptoms don’t improve after one or two days

• How urine cultures for some uncomplicated UTIs may help decrease the risk of antibiotic resistance

• The causes of and risk factors for recurrent UTIs — and the treatments doctors recommend

• The surprising research about cranberry juice and probiotics for the prevention of UTIs

• The vaccine that has shown significant reductions in recurrent UTI — and where it is available

• And more!

Urinary Tract Infection brings you all this helpful information and more to help you confidently prevent and treat this painful illness. And you’ll feel good knowing that it’s advice you can trust because it comes from the renowned health experts at Harvard Medical School.

P.S. UPDATE: Discover the growing problem of antibiotic resistance and how it affects UTI treatment