Urine infection during pregnancy home remedy

What's a UTI?

UTIs are urinary tract infections. They're generally caused by bacteria from your skin, vagina, or rectum that enter your urethra and travel upstream.

You can have a UTI in any part of your urinary tract, which starts at the kidneys, where urine is made; continues through tubes called ureters down to the bladder, where urine accumulates until you pee; and ends with the urethra, a short tube that carries the urine outside your body.

Here are the most common types of UTIs:

• Cystitis, or bladder infection - This happens when bacteria stop in your bladder and multiply there, causing inflammation and triggering those familiar symptoms.

  Cystitis is the most common type of UTI.

• Kidney infection - Bacteria may also travel from your bladder up through the ureters to infect one or both kidneys. A kidney infection (also called pyelonephritis) is one of the most common serious medical complications of pregnancy.

  The infection can spread to your bloodstream and become life-th

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