A WOMAN who was fit, healthy and active, working out seven days a week, is now wheelchair-bound and having palliative care in a hospice - needing 24 hour help just to survive. For Talia Smith, 44 ...
Her GP diagnosed her with a UTI, and prescribed her five days' worth of antibiotics. But after the pain refused to go away, Zoe went straight to A&E to find out what was going on. Her condition ...
Risk factors include sexual activity, pregnancy, menopause, retaining urine for long periods of time, chronic antibiotic use, having diabetes (which can increase urine glucose that bacteria feed on), ...
Our experience confirms and extends the findings of a previous case series on the use of daptomycin for the treatment of VRE UTIs. The previous study [12] of 5 hospitalized patients with ...