Non-antibiotic methods in the treatment of urinary tractinfection

Background and Aim : Urinary tract infection is one of the most common of infections that canoccur in humans. Women due to the anatomical conditions of their urinary tract ،elderly peoplewith underlying diseases and patients admitted to hospital or nursing homes who use catheters aremore exposed to this infection. Frequent burning of urine is the most clinical symptom of thisinfection, although fever and loss of appetite also occur in children. This infection can occur in theform of bacteriuria that will heal by itself or uncomplicated type that treats by usual antibiotics, ora complicated infection that leads to pyelonephritis or cystitis. Common first-line antibiotics in thetreatment of urinary tract infections include nitrofurantoin, cotrimoxazole, trimethoprim, andciprofloxacin. Our goal in this article is to investigate ways to The patient recovers without longtermuse of antibiotics .Methods : this article, discuss other methods besides antibiotic treatment. One of these methodsis the use of ibuprofen, that shortens the treatment period and sometimes improves thesymptoms.Another method is to use the adhesin metabolite of the gene FimH that Competitivewith the main gene in E.coli, it reduces the microbial load and controls the infection.Anothermethod is to use a device( Utipro plus) that is mechanically placed in the intestine and preventsthe invasion of bacteria. Afurther method is to use Conferon which is a type of traditional plantand use as an auxiliary treatment in urinary tract infections. Other methods can be the use estrogenin postmenopausal women ،blueberry products, ،Ecoli om-۸۹ bacterial lysis vaccineResults : The results obtained from the use of non-antibiotic treatment, show that these methodsare effective for the recovery of urinary infection. By conducting extensive tests and research, wecan hope that these methods will replace antibiotic in the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tractinfections.Conclusion : Considering that urinary tract infection is one of the most common infections intoday's world and antibiotic resistance is one of the problems in the medical world, so،the use ofalternative antibiotic treatments can solve the problem of antibiotic resistance and prevent extracosts to the society.

کلیدواژه ها:

urinary tract infection ، antibiotic resistance ، non-antibiotic ، treatment ، new method