The hardest thing to recognize cystitis in an infant. After all, he still can not show his concern to write often (up to 20 times a day), cries on every occasion (hungry, wants to sleep, eat, torture GAZ cars).
In children younger than 1 year, and inflammation of the bladder may be suspected if: it is constantly crying, especially when urinating; frequent urge to the bathroom;
His urine becomes dark (this can be seen even if the child is peeing in the diaper. Dark urine due to the presence of particles therein bladder mucosa, pus, protein, blood); Body temperature rises to 39 degrees.
A child 2 years old can recognize cystitis of the main symptoms of which are: frequent urination (more than 15 times), anxiety, crying.
Recognition of cystitis in a child 3 years requires careful attention of parents. To join the usual symptoms such as non-food intake, acute urinary retention (pain during urination leads to the fact that as a child can not longer willing to go to the potty, bladder and colon overflow, increase in size, causing severe painful anxiety).
In children, 4, 5, 6 years to identify cystitis is much easier, as they can point to a painful place, accustomed to the pot, so incontinence caused by illness, can not be confused with the inability to be asked during restroom. By the above-described symptoms may join pain in the lumbar region.
Attention: frequent urination without pain and in normal urine indicators not associated with cystitis, but rather with functional immaturity of the bladder is called pollakiuria and requires a different approach to treatment.
As with any urogenital diseases, diagnosis of cystitis in children is based on the general analysis of urine, which show inflammatory processes: increase in the number of white blood cells, epithelial cells, bacteria on the background of reducing the number of squirrel. Analysis rent, carefully substitution, draining the first urine. For correct selection of medication treatment of rent and bacteriological analysis.
To clarify the diagnosis of cystitis in children carried ultrasound of the kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder.
