Need some advice on peeing in the house

I'll also add that it's not necessarily true that abx would clear up a UTI. Lexi had to go through a couple different prescriptions to find the one that cleared up her infection.

The first step is usually a urinalysis to determine if bacteria is present, then the vet prescribes broad spectrum abx that take care of a lot of infections. But if that doesn't work, they do a urine culture to determine the specific bacteria and then prescribe a more specific antibiotic to combat that particular bacteria.

But Randi's right, you can't do any tests now that she's already on abx without waiting a few days for it to clear out of her system.
 
Since Megan's WBC was really high and a lot of crystals were in the urinalysis, we did the urine culture to determine the specific bacteria. Thankfully the bacteria was a common one that the broad spectrum abx were fine.
 
My vet found the stones while taking the sterile culture, I guess they use a sonogram, and they saw them then. They didn't X-ray until the surgery. They pulled a basic presurgical bloodwork, but that was not part of the diagnostic.
 
corbinam said:
I'll also add that it's not necessarily true that abx would clear up a UTI. Lexi had to go through a couple different prescriptions to find the one that cleared up her infection.

The first step is usually a urinalysis to determine if bacteria is present, then the vet prescribes broad spectrum abx that take care of a lot of infections. But if that doesn't work, they do a urine culture to determine the specific bacteria and then prescribe a more specific antibiotic to combat that particular bacteria.

But Randi's right, you can't do any tests now that she's already on abx without waiting a few days for it to clear out of her system.
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This is what I was thinking, not all antibiotics work for every strain of bacteria. She may be on an antibiotic that doesn't work for the strain of bacteria she has.

Sadie had to have a couple of antibiotics to clear up her UTI one year. It was a specifically bad infection and the first antibiotic wasn't enough to clear it up.
 
OntarioSheltie said:
This is what I was thinking, not all antibiotics work for every strain of bacteria. She may be on an antibiotic that doesn't work for the strain of bacteria she has.

Sadie had to have a couple of antibiotics to clear up her UTI one year. It was a specifically bad infection and the first antibiotic wasn't enough to clear it up.
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Okay! I didn't think about that since doc seemed to be point blank it's not a UTI since it didn't respond to the antibiotics, but now I see you all saying this and I'm thinking we have to find a way to get her pee. Since she turns around quickly anytime you put anything down there and even after being on IV Fluids they couldn't get a sample, any tips? I will make a note ALSO that it wasn't be done while she's on the antibiotics... don't know why he didn't tell me that!
 
corbinam said:
The first step is usually a urinalysis to determine if bacteria is present, then the vet prescribes broad spectrum abx that take care of a lot of infections. But if that doesn't work, they do a urine culture to determine the specific bacteria and then prescribe a more specific antibiotic to combat that particular bacteria.
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Excellent! Thanks for explaining it and making it clear. Must find a way to get that urine and I guess do a culture since they broad spectrum abx didn't take care of it.
 
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