Next Steps

Follow-up

Follow your health-care provider's treatment recommendations. Finish all medications even if you are feeling better before the medication is gone. Your health-care provider will want to see you again to repeat the urinalysis and make sure you are getting better.

• Children and adults with kidney involvement should be seen again in one to two days.



• People recovering from uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections should be seen within one week.

Occasionally, the infection does not go away with the first treatment. If you are being treated for an infection and have any of the following, call your health-care provider promptly.

• Fever or pain with urination is not gone after two days of antibiotic treatment.



• You cannot keep the medication down or it has severe side effects.



• You are unable to keep foods, fluids, or medication down because of nausea or vomiting.



• You develop signs of kidney involvement (such as flank pain, shaking chills, high fever).



• Your symptoms are worse rather than better after two days of antibiotics.

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