A member asked:

Went to hospital with impacted stool, and extreme pain. they took a urine sample and said i had a urine infection to, but it could be a dirty sample?

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Dr. John Leander Po answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

Other symptoms?: You are definitely right- one can have a pyuria ( whiteblood cells in the urine) or a bacteruria ( bacteria in the urine) but unless you are symptomatic (suprapubic pain, flank pain, burining on urination, frequency of urination, as examples) then your assumption may be right.

Answered 2/4/2013

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