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A 52-year-old male asked:
What could be reason for reoccuring uti in a seventy years old woman for about a year now?
1 doctor answer • 2 doctors weighed in
Dr. Kenneth Lickeranswered
Urology 51 years experience
Cause of uti: A 70 year old woman can have infection due to incomplete bladder emptying, it may be related to poor vaginal hygiene, neurogenic bladder.
It is important to have a catheterized urine specimen for culture to be certain that it is truly a urinary infection
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