Kidney Infection Not Getting Better After Antibiotics

I went back to another doctor and he prescribed me 10 more days of cipro without retesting my urine or blood.

Kidney infection not getting better after antibiotics. Your doctor might recommend a repeat urine culture to ensure the infection has cleared. Kidney infection getting worse on antibiotics 13 posts add message report. I never had any symptoms of uti just an increase in the frequency to use the restroom and flank pain for about 10 days.

I was wondering if anone knows should the antibiotics have worked by now if. A week ago i was in the er for a few hours due to a kidney infection first one in 12 years that wasn t responding to antibiotics and that was causing my fever to continue to spike to around 105 degrees. Take the entire course of antibiotics recommended by your doctor even after you feel better.

I am on my last day of antibiotics 5 day course for a kidney infection and the pain is still intense it s also moved from the right side to the left. This class includes penicillin and amoxicillin among others potential side effects from this group of antibiotics include nausea vomiting or diarrhea there have also been reports of severe allergic reactions when taking these antibiotics. Read more about treating a kidney infection and the complications of a kidney infection.

I don t have a desk job at work my job is very active and intense so i have not been able to work in a month now. These include blood poisoning and a build up of pus in the kidney called an abscess. If the infection was associated with a kidney stone and the infection was proximal to it above then antibiotics may not be needed.

As we mentioned kidney infections that don t get treated can cause a condition known as sepsis. But you might need to continue antibiotics for a week or longer. And it s hard to wait it out because of the pain.

However my kidneys were still tender even after finishing the antibiotics. Treatment for kidney infection not responding to antibiotics. Kidney infections can take a while to heal depending on the severity.