Urinary symptoms with a fever
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Urinary symptoms with a fever
You will usually have a fever if you have a kidney or prostate infection. You may have a fever if you have a bladder infection, although it is less likely. When a fever is caused by an infection in the urinary tract, other symptoms are usually present as well.
You may need to see a doctor if you have a fever and urinary symptoms such as:
- Pain in the back just below the rib cage on one side of the body (flank pain).
- Burning with urination (dysuria) and a frequent urge to urinate (frequency).
You probably do not have a UTI if you have a fever without other urinary symptoms unless you also have high-risk conditions, such as:
- A tube placed in your bladder to drain urine (catheter).
- Difficulty communicating, such as after a stroke. In this case, you may not be able to tell anyone about your symptoms.
- A spinal cord injury.
Credits
| Author | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Editor | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Associate Editor | Tracy Landauer |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Philip Belitsky, MD, FRCSC - Urology |
| Last Updated | May 17, 2007 |
| Last updated: | May 17, 2007 |
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| Author: | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Reviewed By: | William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine, Philip Belitsky, MD, FRCSC - Urology |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer |
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