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Urinary tract infection - children - Management
When should I suspect a urinary tract infection in a child between 3 months and 3 years of age?
- Suspect UTI if the infant or child has any combination of:
- Frequency, dysuria (most common presentation in verbal children).
- Fever without an obvious cause (most common presentation in preverbal children).
- Fever with a presumed cause but poor response to treatment.
- Abdominal pain, loin tenderness.
- Vomiting, poor feeding. Malaise, lethargy, irritability. Haematuria, offensive urine, cloudy urine. Failure to thrive.
- Dysfunctional voiding (voluntary withholding of urine or faeces), incontinence of urine or faeces.
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