This is the 5th time in 4 months that bacteria has been detected in Baby C’s urine.  So far, she has had 1 full-blown Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) and 1 ‘semi full-blown’ UTI about 3 weeks ago.  Last week, bacteria (E Coli and Klebsiella) were detected in her urine again.  The reading of the white blood cells (WBC) in her urine were 2-5, then went up to 8-10 and later shot up to 10-15.  However, our pediatric nephrologist as well as the pediatric surgeon were not too concerned and they told me not to get panicky as the readings are not too alarming. So I asked him what reading should cause a red flag and he told me a WBC reading of a few hundreds.

Our pediatric nephrologist does not want to treat Baby C this time as she’s very concerned that too much antibiotics jabs would render the bacteria resistant to the antibiotics.  So she told me to monitor Baby C  and to do the gross urine checking every other day.  If there’s fever and vomitting and should the urine be cloudy, we should bring her to the hospital immediately for treatment.

Our pediatric surgeon was really blase with Baby C’s situation and thinks it is nothing serious.  He asked us to reduce the urine culture test to once every 2 weeks instead of once a week.  He told me that at times, the urine may be contaminated and cause a false positive.  I am really uncomfortable with both these doctors’ blase attitude towards Baby C’s condition.  Perhaps they had seen many other kids with a much more serious condition but hey, as long as there’re bacteria in the urine and urinary tract, the bacteria could go up to the kidneys and scar/damage the kidney.  There’s no way I am going to risk my precious baby’s kidneys from being damaged.  What am I to do?  There are not many pediatric nephrologists (PN) in private practice.  In fact, the doctor whom I am seeing is the most senior PN in our country and she’s the one who trains other PN in our government hospitals. 

Meanwhile, my PN has recommended a nutritional health supplement to us for Baby C.  She heard about this herbal yeast supplement called Bio-Strath from a conference.  It is suitable for people on long-term antibiotics.  I have bought a bottle and have started to feed Baby C.  Shall blog about this in my next post.