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Low Percentage of Women Report on Urinary Problems

DUBAI - Urinary problems in females are under reported because of lack of trained female professionals, according to an expert.

According to Dr Nuzhat Farooqui, Consultant Urologist at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi during a recent visit to Dubai said that only 30 per cent of female patients seek medical help for this condition.

“Although females experience some of the same problems that men experience such as urinary tract infections, kidney stones, congenital urinary abnormalities, urologic malignancies, and primary kidney diseases, some urology problems are unique to females due to the anatomic developmental differences between both sexes,” said Dr Nuzhat who is also a specialist in Female Urology, Urodynamics and Pelvic
Floor Reconstruction.

Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) account for approximately seven million visits to physicians’ offices, and necessitate or complicate over a million hospital admissions in the US annually.

“UTIs are more common in women than in men. Surveys have shown that 1 per cent of schoolgirls aged 5-14 years have bacteria in the urine.

“This figure increases to about 4 per cent by young adulthood,” said Dr Nuzhat. She explained that bacteria enter the urinary tract from the fecal reservoir, through the urethra into
the bladder.

“Bacteria can also enter through the blood due to which the kidney is occasionally secondarily infected,”
she added.

Dr Nuzhat said that UTIs could be treated using antibiotics. “However, a source should be sought for recurrent, persistent, or complicated UTIs and corrected,” she added.


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