Clinical features of urinary tract infection in the elderly and the Treatment of.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Clinical features of urinary tract infection in the elderly and the Treatment of [Abstract] the elderly because of systemic and local immune defense function decline in susceptibility to urinary tract infections, with symptoms not typical, complex, more serious illness, complicated by bacteremia, sepsis, renal failure, and so on. Conditioning in the treatment of attention should be paid on the overall functional status, with the heat, dampness, Tong-Lin, bleeding, righting and other sub-treatment, can only be effective. [Keywords:] Aged; urinary tract infection; clinical features; Treatment of Urinary tract infection is a common disease in the elderly population, infectious diseases in the elderly, second only to respiratory infections, ranked 2, the incidence rate was 1.6% ~ 43.3% [1]. The incidence of urinary tract infection in the elderly compared with young adults high and increases with age, the differences between the sexes decreases. The main reason as follows: ① decrease of systemic and local defense function. ② urinary tract obstruction. According to statistics, the elderly urinary tract infection-induced urinary tract obstruction is the most important one of the reasons. Was mainly due to obstruction caused by prostate enlargement, followed by urinary tract stones, tumors and so on. And the elderly have poor urine flow, decreased thirst perception and drinking less time in bed are more prone to middle-aged hyperuricemia and urinary tract tumors [2]. 1 Clinical features 1.1 Typical symptoms Elderly patients with urinary tract infection without the typical urinary frequency, urgency, dysuria and other urinary symptoms, their first symptom Changchengnongxing emerged in diverse characteristics. It was observed that elderly patients with urinary tract infection, its first symptom of urinary tract irritation, respectively: fever, back pain, kidney area pain in tapping positive; hematuria, white blood cells in urine, proteinu