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Welcome to Urinary Tract Infection Center
Urinary Tract Infection account for more than 8 million
doctor's visits yearly. Ranked as the #2 reason that a women visits the doctor.
An estimated 10-20 million are affected each year. Women outrank men 30 to
1 for infections and twenty percent of women in the United States develop
a bladder infection and 20% of those have a recurrence.Unlike most infections the bacteria that causes most bladder infections is not transmitted or picked up from the environment or passed from another infected person. The bacteria actually comes from the person themselves. Every person carries this bacteria (escherichia coli) around in our gut where it is harmless, however if it migrates into the urinary tract it causes an infection.
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