Urinary Tract Infections in Pregnant Women. New Opportunities Anti-Relapse Therapy

Abstract

Infectious processes of the urinary tract are a group of diseases often encountered in clinical practice. In particular thisapplies to pregnant women in early pregnancy who develop functional changes in the urinary tract. The most commonpathological condition during pregnancy is asymptomatic bacteriuria.For antibacterial drugs, prescribed on the late stages with no consideration of causative agents’ sensitivity, or inadequatetherapeutic doses ascending infection leading to the development of gestational pyelonephritis and other complications ofpregnancy may develop. For best preventive treatment the use of antibiotic therapy, prophylactics like cranberry extractcontaining proanthocyanidin A or other demonstrably effective herbal based drugs, is recommended. As for the medicalcheck-up for this group of patients, it goes without saying that it is obligatory.