To ask for help - daughter with UTI in France. Any advice please

[annie987]

We are staying in France for a fortnight and my DD who is 11 has what I can only assume is a UTI.
She normally goes to the loo three times a day but for the last 36 hours has been needing to go hourly. No pain or discomfort just needing to go. She has also wet herself every 3 hours or so during the night and she hasn’t wet the bed since she was 2!
Does this sound like a UTI? She’s never been affected before.

What do we do? I speak no french (other than asking for a wine!). Should we go to a pharmacy or a doctor? I feel a bit helpless! Thanks for any advice.

Not too bad thanks. A dry bed last night thankfully. She’s very constipated which I think was the cause of the UTI so currently feeding her fruit juice and filling her with water!

Go to a doctor if you can, UTIs can linger in children, and often appear to go away when they haven’t really, and sometimes need antibiotics, best to be sure. Will clear up really fast with correct medicine. For context DS is under urology team at GOSH so I know a little about UTIs!

I'm just adding to this post as I was in a similar position last week, having a UTI with blood in my urine and feeling really quite unwell and needing treatment on a Sunday in rural France. I thought it might be useful for anyone searching in the future and coming across this thread as I did.
Believe it or not, all pharmacies within at least 2 hours were closed and although there was a phone number on the pharmacy door to find out which pharmacy is essentially on call and open for that Sunday, none of the mobile phones within our group would connect to the number. We drove to a supermarket in an attempt to purchase something to ease the symptoms at least but they didn't sell anything vaguely medicinal, not even paracetamol.
Eventually I phoned '15' which is an urgent medical number in France and was triaged through for a telephone consultation with a doctor. It was a little difficult due to the language barrier but eventually I was told to go and collect a prescription from a named local pharmacy that I was given the address for (on-call for that Sunday). I was immensely relieved to receive the antibiotics I needed and so wanted to share what worked for me on a Sunday in rural France!