Women who phone in to report repeated urinary tract infections may be experiencing flares of interstitial cystitis instead, suggest study findings.
Dr. Edward Stanford, in private practice in Centralia, Illinois, presented study results at the 23rd annual meeting of the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS).
Many doctors will dispense antibiotic without culturing, and many women will simply feel another urinary tract infection is coming on, but instead, the possibility of interstitial cystitis should be investigated, said Dr. Stanford. “Only one out of five times is it truly an infection” when someone with documented interstitial cystitis has a flare-up of painful symptoms.
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