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How do doctors know if you have vaginal ecoli?

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Culture: Culture is only way vaginal e coli not common urinary e coli are common.

Answered 5/14/2013

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What is the best way to prevent vaginal ecoli infections during sex would showering immediately before sex help. I have crones ?

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My son is 5years old and gets fevers of 39 degrees or even 40 degrees. This has been going on for 5 weeks going to 6 weeks now on and off. He was admitted in week 2 of this fever, his doctor suspected ecoli in the gut or somewhere..i don't know?

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How does a uti become urethritis? My urine said I had eColi. Treated me for a UTI NOT URETHRITIS. why did I not get medication for this. The macrobid did not help me at all. on it 2 weeks. Can you tell me which medication to ask my doctor for?

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Doc my wife is pregnant and is having recurrent UTI since beginning of second trimester...All the urine cultures from past 3 months show ecoli 10 rais?

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My doctor gave me Macrobid for my UTI. I got my culture back there was eColi. The pain in my urethra never went away. I am now being told that that will not heal the eColi in my urethra /urethritis I should take Cipro or z pak. Why no Help both?

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