Causes of urinary tract infection in children

Children urinary tract infection, may be related to anatomical characteristics, antibiotic treatment and urinary tract structural abnormalities and other factors.

1, anatomical characteristics of

children often use diapers, can lead to urinary tract mouth often contaminated by feces, especially girls urethra is shorter, more susceptible to pathogen invasion, and then cause urinary tract infection.

2, antibiotic treatment

If children because of other diseases need long-term use of antibiotics, can destroy the flora environment around the urethra, and then lead to pathogen invasion, causing urinary tract infection.

3, urinary tract structural abnormalities

in children may exist urethral valve, ureter-bladder stricture and other congenital abnormalities, can cause poor urination, but also easy to cause a large number of pathogens breeding, resulting in urinary tract infection.