Thursday, February 12, 2015

Study group discussion: Pharmacological treatment of UTI in pregnancy

Sharing some of the knowledge I learnt!

So what is the treatment of Urinary tract infection?

Antibiotic according to urine  culture report.

Yeah what's the most common cause?

E.coli

So what the treatment prescribed?

Norfloxacin. It's excreted unchanged in the urine.

The most commonly is trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole. But that's in case of chronic uti, right?

So the question I wanted to ask is what would you prescribe in a pregnant lady? Which drug.. Sulphamethoxazole and trimethoprim?

No. Its a PABA agonist.. Will inhibit folate synthesis. Risk factor for NTD.

NTD means?

Ntd-neural tube defects.

Amoxicillin and ampicillin. Those are the ones preferred for any infection.

Nitrofurantoin too.

That's prophylactically. Atleast that's what we were taught.

Even nalidixic acid.

Yeah! Not to give TMP-SMX that's what was the main point I wanted to convey.

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