Patient's question:
Hello! A 46-year-old woman has been experiencing lower abdominal pain recently. She has also been urinating frequently at night, but the amount of urine is not very large, and this phenomenon does not occur again during the day.Doctor's answer:
Your condition is likely a urinary tract infection. It is recommended to go to the hospital for a routine urine test to identify the cause. The clinical manifestations of urinary tract infections are quite broad. Urinary tract infections can be classified based on the infection site into pyelonephritis, cystitis, and urethritis. Based on the presence or absence of functional or organic abnormalities in the urinary tract, they can be further divided into complicated and uncomplicated urinary tract infections. According to the nature of the inflammation, they can also be categorized as acute or chronic urinary tract infections.