“When should you go to the hospital for a kidney infection?”
I have a kidney infection and want to treat it. When should you go to the hospital for a kidney infection?
4 Answers
Go to hospital if you have pain over the kidney and high grade fever. If you have chills, vomiting, drop in blood pressure, dizziness, vomiting, decreased urine output or blood in urine.
Unless you feel dizzy, dehydrated, or with high fever and severe pain you don't need to go to the hospital for IV antibiotics, your primary care doctor should be able to treat you at home with oral antibiotics.
In adults and children, cloudy urine and frequent trips to the bathroom, along with back pain and pain on urination, and in infants and children as soon as possible to ensure antibiotics are given timely. Fever and chills are late signs, requiring immediate attention. Seizures with fever also need evaluation for a possible UTI
When you have high fevers, rigors, chills, shivering, dehydration, vomiting, blood in urine, weakness, and lethargy.
