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Is it harmful to take prescribed drugs(nitrofurantoin and fluconazole) for uti symptoms before doing a urine test, if you don't actually have uti?

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Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

No: It is the rationale for treating UTI without culture. If you symptoms are typical a duck is a duck. So if the nitrofurantoin is working and symptoms resolve it does not matter that the culture does not grow an organism. However, if symptoms worsen the culture will grow a bacteria that can be identified and treated with right drug.

Answered 3/11/2018

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