to think uti's are not catching

[TheoriginalLEM]

at the end of last week i went down with a uti. Its finally gone after three days and ABs but normally goes within hours of getting ABS.

It hasn't this time and i feel ropey still but they gave me different ABs. So not the usual pattern.

So im off work this week anyway. Look on Facebook and a colleague i work closely with has now got the same.

Its a coincidence surely??

I thought they can only be caught from someone you're having sex with? I get frequent UTIs and each time the GP tells me to avoid sex until it's gone or else DH and I will pass it back and forth.

I don't mean you only get a UTI from having sex, just that that's the only way you can catch one from another person who already has a preexisting UTI. Just to clarify.

I'm very tired.

No they are not catching. Bacteria from your own poo gets into your urethra and causes them. Hth.

well thats what i thought too! my colleague and i have most definitely not been getting it on.

I had exactly the same experience OP! I have had a UTI only once in my life several years ago. I went to Dr before going into work and discovered that my coworker was also late getting to the office due to a "dentist" visit. At lunch she told me she'd actually been to her Dr because she had a UTI and this was a first time ever for her also (we were both in our early 30's). Neither of us has had one since.

Strange coincidence... of course we both know how you get a UTI but we did consider whether some chicken we both ate several days before from a catered work lunch (cheap indian takeaway food) could be connected since that link has been made for several years.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/how-your-chicken-dinner-is-creating-a-drug-resistant-superbug/259700/

No idea but I'm at your colleague posting details of their UTI on FaceBook

Is the colleague suggesting that she caught it from you?

Why would your friend post about a uti on Facebook ?
Everyone gets uti now and then.
Uti is not contagious.

I think Rainbunny may be onto something... off/ bad food = more bacteria eg e coli (a main culprit I think?) in body = (possibly) more chance of a uti.

Eating the same bad food could give the same increased risk to the colleague, so perhaps not just a coincidence in Rainbunny's case.

I'm not sure there could be a link other than by food/ ingestion/ direct contact though.

Mothattack - I'm sure it was just a coincidence but what a strange one! Two women in their early thirties never having had a UTI in their lives previously, both get UTIs at the exact same time!

If I'm buying meat at the grocery store I only buy organic now to avoid meat that antibiotics were used on (as a result I buy less meat which is better anyway) and I avoid chicken dishes when it's a cheap restaurant/takeaway type of place also.

Mothattack - Oh and thank you for explaining the causal connection that I was alluding to - I did mean that the possibility of bad chicken introducing an e-coli type bacteria into our systems may have increased the chances that we coincidentally developed UTIs, not that we "caught" the UTIs directly from eating the chicken!

she didn't post directly, just that she was off sick and then i asked. I simply thougjt it was a coincidence. I used to get uti's alot and this girl has dodgy kidneys.

Interestingly two other colleagues have gone sick with stomach bugs. I felt as sick as a parrot with my uti which i don't usually. So maybe a bug that left myself and colleadue susceptible but most likely a coincidence.