Editing Urinary Tract Infections (section)

==== Management ====
* '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Antibiotic regimen'''
**'''<span style="color:#ff0000">Preferred (3)'''
**# '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Fosfomycin 3 gram PO x single dose'''
**# '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Nitrofurantoin 100 mg PO BID x 5 days'''
**# '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole DS 1 pill PO BID x 3 days'''
**'''<span style="color:#ff0000">Alternative when bacteria are resistant to the preferred antibiotics: ciprofloxacin, 250 mg BID x 3 days'''
***'''<span style="color:#ff0000">Fluoroquinolone antibiotics should not be the first line treatment of uncomplicated cystitis.'''
*'''≈90% of women are asymptomatic within 72 hours after initiating antibiotics'''
* '''A follow-up visit or culture is not required in young women who are asymptomatic after therapy.'''
** A follow-up visit, urinalysis, and urine culture are recommended in older women or those with potential risk factors and in men.
** '''Urologic evaluation is unnecessary in women and is usually unnecessary in young men who respond to therapy.  However, UTIs in most men should be considered complicated until proven otherwise.'''
* '''If a patient does not respond to therapy, appropriate microbiologic and urologic evaluations should be undertaken for the causes of unresolved and complicated UTIs.'''