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Jerry R. Balentine, DO, FACEP

Jerry R. Balentine, DO, FACEP

Dr. Balentine received his undergraduate degree from McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. He attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine graduating in1983. He completed his internship at St. Joseph's Hospital in Philadelphia and his Emergency Medicine residency at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx, where he served as chief resident.

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Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor

Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor

Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.

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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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