UTI in pregnancy

I get UTI’s all the time! My helpful tips are cranberry juice, ibuprofen (when not pregnant obviously) warm baths, constant fluids of water, the pain is the worst but the more hydrated you are the lower the concentration on the urine so it doesn’t burn as much and keep pushing, you’ve got to flush the infection out! One time I took a large sealed cup of water and sipped it through a straw when trying to wee as my mind was so focused on the drink to distract me from the pain of passing urine, thinking of you mumma x

Thanks girls I’ll keep drinking lots, so scared to go to the toilet everytime. How long will it take for the pain to stop?! X

Cranberry juice, float dresses, full briefs, cotton, size up helped me - hang in there! It’ll soon get better ☺️

I also say cranberry juice really helped me! And the cranberry capsules too if you’re not wanting to drink the bitter drink. Also please please go get checked out again if the pain travels to your back, my last one had me hospitalised with an awful kidney infection because i didn’t get checked out sooner!

@Lucy thanks Lucy I was just thinking this. Gonna have a look now x

The little sachets you put in water really help with that

I just finally got rid of mine had a bit of a scare as I never had a UTI before and I had a bit of blood in urine so I rang the midwife’s and they said to take 2 paracetamols every 6hours to mitigate the pain. Think this is the only pain killer we can unfortunately have with being pregnant. Hopefully it goes soon. As soon as I took the antibiotic it lasted about 2 more days of pain and now it feels normal but still have a few days left of antibiotics to take!

If you have a peri bottle fill that with warm water or use a small jig and pour it over yourself downstairs when you wee, drink plenty of water avoid caffeine and anything that will irritate you

Cramberry juice and pleeenty of liquids and try not wear underwear when at home to keep all Fresh on this weather

Lots of water to dilute your urine may help. Cranberry juice may help some people as well so it’s worth a shot. It didn’t help my situation. Hopefully you’ll start to feel better when the antibiotics start kicking in. The fear of going to the toilet is awful 😩

Oh! A bath, doesn’t matter hot or cold to be honest. When mine were really bad I just didn’t want to get off the toilet. So I would transition to the bath and then I had the strength to get up and flop into bed.

I have recurrent UTIs and the only thing that helped (apart from antibiotics) was to drink a huge amount of water continuously for a couple of hours. However the antibiotics should ease the pain in 1h, might be possible the dose is too low or you need a specific antibiotic (hopefully they took a sample to test)

Hi girls, just wanted to say the biggest thank yous to you all! It’s eased up as the day has gone on. Had I not posted this I genuinely would not have known about drinking lots to dilute the urine. I took all your advice on board, I’ve alternated water and cranberry juice all day and by this evening it’s been much better! Thank you thank you thank you 🙏🏼💕