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Study questions treatment in diabetic patients.(bladder infection treatment)(Brief Article)
2002 DEC 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hunting down and treating symptom-free bladder infections in women with diabetes does nothing to ward off painful recurrences later, a study has found.
Diabetic women are far more prone to bladder infections and to serious complications from those infections than other women. Because of that, some doctors recommend testing their urine for bacteria and - since urine is usually sterile - giving them antibiotics if germs show up.
That doesn't work, Dr. Lindsay E. Nicolle of the University of Manitoba's department of medical microbiology wrote in the November 14, 2002, New England Journal of Medicine.
Doctors at the University of Manitoba and St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnepeg, Canada, tested 105 diabetic women who had bacteria in their urine but no symptoms. Fifty were assigned at random to get a placebo, 55 to get antibiotics.
Four weeks later, 78% of those ...
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