Why do diabetic patients prone to urinary tract infection?
Posted on December 19, 2009
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Diabetes and infection may interact infection may aggravate diabetes, but diabetes is likely complicated by infection. Patients with diabetes mellitus complicated by the prevalence of infection may be as high as 32.6% ~ 90.5%. In these infections to respiratory infections, followed by urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infection in diabetic patients the most common pathogens were gram-negative bacteria, fungal infections can also be seen. About 10% to 20% of patients showed asymptomatic bacteriuria.
The incidence of urinary tract infection in patients with diabetes than the general population, mainly to the following factors:
★ diabetic urine contains more glucose, the higher sugar content of certain bacteria in the urine that can easily breed.
★ poor diabetes control is often both phagocytosis, intracellular bacteria, cells and other immune defense function of the defect, so that diabetic patients prone to urinary tract infection. Experiments show that diabetic patients granulocyte bactericidal activity than the general population significantly decreased, but by the control of blood glucose after sterilization markedly enhanced.
★ diabetes Yi Secondary neurogenic bladder, urinary retention, so that bacteria breed easily in the bladder, particularly after the use of catheters are more likely to have retrograde urinary tract infection.
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