Is urine granulocyte esterase positive serious

Urine granulocyte esterase is positive, it suggests that there is urinary tract infection, need to combine the number of white blood cells in urine and urine culture test to make a comprehensive judgment. If only show urine granulocyte esterase positive, but also for urine vitamin C test, to understand whether there is a false positive possibility, this is a common disease, not a serious disease, so do not worry too much. At the same time also ask the patient whether there is frequent urination, urgency, urination pain, whether there is low back pain, fever and other manifestations. If there are the above urinary tract irritation symptoms, combined with urine granulocyte esterase positive, accompanied by urine leukocytes positive, can be diagnosed with urinary tract infection, need anti-infection treatment. Can also continue to take clean mid-stream urine culture test, if urine culture pathogens, need to further drug sensitivity test, can choose the most sensitive drugs to treat, prevent empirical selection of some drugs, resulting in patients showing drug resistance and treatment ineffective.