What Is a Kidney Infection?
10. Treatment
Kidney infections are bacterial infections, and this means that they will be treated with antibiotics. The dosage and the type of drugs used will vary on the patient’s overall health, and the severity of their infection. Antibiotics are usually very effective, and the patient should make a full recovery in just a few days or so.
If the infection is severe then the patient may need to be hospitalized, and antibiotics may be given intravenously. In some cases, it might be necessary to treat an underlying cause, and this will sometimes mean surgery to help repair an anomaly in the urinary tract.
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