My 6 year old dd started having smelly wee back in March (a very strong smell of fish). I did some research on the net and realised it was probably a UTI, took her to docs and it was confirmed to be just that. Given antibiotics, i don't really like the things as I have had a terrible time in the past with doctors overprescribing them to me and making the infection resiliant, but I gave them to her, and they did work in that the symptoms disappeared for about a week then came back again.
More, stronger antibiotics prescribed and doc assured me these would do the trick. Exactly the same result as previous time, it came back after a week. She was sent for a scan at the hospital and it was found that her bladder and kidneys were fine, everything as it should be.
I took her to the homeopath and she was given a remedy which made the smell go away for about 2 months. The infection also made her lose all ability to know when to go for a wee and she would have accidents pretty much every day at school and would need changing. Not full on weeing herself but just enough to make her pants a bit damp and therefore smelly as her wee smells so bad. But after the homoepath she literally overnight stopped wetting herself.
Unfortunately the remedy stopped working and since then she has tried other homoepathic remedies but they have done nothing at all. The symptoms all returned, worse than ever, and she also started wetting the bed which is something she had never done before. The other kids at school started noticing and she has been really embarrassed about it, I feel so sorry for her. So went back to docs and was prescribed more antibiotics. They didn't work at all, and a urine sample showed that the infection had now become resistant to that type, she was presribed a different sort which she finished a week ago and they did seem to work, but I noticed tonight that the smell had returned.
I am desperate here as the docs don't seem to have any answers and all they can/will do is prescribe yet more antibiotics that don't bloody work and are making the bugs stronger with every course that she takes.
Does anyone have any ideas of where I can go next with this? I would be hugely grateful to anyone who can help.
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Recurring UTI in 6 yr old DD - desperate for some help
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igetmorelovefromthecat · 12/10/2010 23:30
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