What Is Pyelonephritis?
5. What Are the Treatment Options?
Doctors often prefer not to prescribe antibiotics, but having a kidney infection is one exception. You won’t be able to recover from a kidney infection with conservative treatments like getting rest, drinking fluids, and eating chicken soup while you watch TV.
Your doctor decides which antibiotics you should take and for how long, but it’s up to you to follow the treatment plan to the letter. It’s possible to develop a worse infection if you do not finish your course of antibiotics. After treating your infection, your doctor may want to re-sample your urine to make sure it’s completely gone.
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