I appreciate your clear explanations of UTI and APN. Judging







from the back pain my mother has experienced, it sounds







more like APN, except she does not really have symptoms







like fever and chilliness etc. She does not seem to have







trouble with voiding either. From the doctor's report, there is







an excess of pus cells in the urine, but the rest seems pretty







normal. She is on medication now--is that the only way for







the pain to be gone? Is there anything else she should do?























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>UTI(Urinary tract infection)include upper and lower urinary tract infection.







>Kidney infection usually means APN(acute pyelonephritis) is the most common upper urinary tract infection.







>APN usually has symptoms like fever, chillness,nausea, costophrenic angle koncking pain(back pain at knocking) and usually combined with lower urinary tract symptoms such as dysuria(pain at voiding), frequency, urgency, burning sensation at voiding.







>Lower urinary tract infection means bladder or urethra infeciton(cystitis and urethritis), and symptoms were as above mentioned.







>Please go to visit the doctor and take antibiotics to control the UTI, if severe APN, admission to the hospital to receive intravenous form antibiotics is needed.