What's the best way of detecting a UTI (urinary tract infection)?
Our 5 year old recently just had an extremely high fever spike with no symptoms. After a trip to the ER, they determined she had a urinary tract infection, but she had no burning, stomach pain, kidney pain, etc... Has anybody else had similar issues and is there another way to help detect this?
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The most common presentation of a urinary tract infection in a young child is fever without any other symptoms, or fever and tummyache. Often a young child is unable to verbalize complaints of pain with urination. Sometimes a previously toilet-trained child will start having urinary accidents and that is your only clue. So they can be quite tricky!
For more information, go to http://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/genitourinary-tract/Pages/Detecting-Urinary-Tract-Infections.aspx for information from the American Academy of Pediatrics on urinary tract infections.
