We were at our pediatric nephrologist’s clinic today. The urine culture report for the urine culture done on Friday last week was out today. The bacteria this time is Klabsiella, which our doctor said comes from stools most of the time. Both our doctor and I were stumped that the bacteria has changed from E.Coli to Klabsiella in just 4 days. Just last Monday, the urine culture test showed that there’s E.Coli bacteria in Baby C’s urine. Now, it has changed to Klabsiella.
The readings in Baby C’s urine, (urine culture done on Monday last week) showed that the WBC is less than 10 but the colony count reading of the E.Coli bacteria is >100,000, which is significant. The reading is quite conflicting coz if the WBC is low, the colony count shouldn’t be significant.
The readings in the urine, (urine culture done on Friday last week) showed that the WBC is 16 but the colony count reading of the Klabsiella bacteria is only <10,000, which is insignificant. The results are quite conflicting and we have some doubts on the accuracy of the test done by the lab at the hospital near where we stay. Our doctor does not want to over treat Baby C nor treat her wrongly looking at the 2 urine culture reports that do not seem to jive. So she has asked that I stop feeding antibiotics (Bactrim) to Baby C for 5 days starting from tonight. On Saturday, we will collect her urine again for another urine culture to see what bacteria is in her urine this time…. haiz….!
We were supposed to bring Baby C for an ultrasound scan today but the queue was horrendously long, so we will postpone it to Saturday. I am praying that the scan this time confirms that there is NO duplex system in Baby C’s urinary tract system. If indeed there is a duplex system, then surgery is the most likely option.
Pray that Baby C doesnt need to go thru any surgery.
Keep us posted.
Oh dear….quite “cheh kai” right…2 different AND conflicting results!!!