Abstract

ANTIBIOTICS USES IN THE TREATMENT OF WOMEN WITH THE URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS IN DIFFERENT AGES

Inssaf IH. Al–Shemmary*

Abstract

Objective: The present study was aimed to determine the most antibiotics uses in the treatment of urinary tract infections in the different ages of women with the UTIs. Methods: The study was carried out in College of Medicine / Anbar University in the period of August 2023- July 2024. Total 100 patients were collected from Ramadi Teaching Hospital, with the age ranged from 15 - 47years. women were divided into three groups according to the age, group 1(15 - 25years), group 2 (26 – 36 years) and group 3(37 – 47years). Also patients were divided into two groups according to the marital status: married and unmarried groups. Patients were diagnosed by the symptoms, urine analysis and urine culture. Patients received different antibiotics for treatment. Results: This study showed there were significant differences among age group 1(15–25 years), group 2(26– 36 years) and group 3(37–47 years ) of women with UTI according to the age at P≤0.01, highly percentage of UTI in women in the group 1 (49%), then, group 2 (35%) and the less in the group 3 (16%). Higher percentage of UTI in married women (71%) rather than unmarried women (29%) and highly uses of antibiotics as ceftriaxone in age group 2(29%), ceftriaxone / metronidazole in age group 1(21%) and levofloxacin in age group 1(5%) . The higher uses of antibiotics in hundred women were ceftriaxone (54%) followed by ceftriaxone / metronidazole (38%), then levofloxacin (8%).Conclusions: This study found that the higher UTI in women belong to the age group 15-25years, followed by age group 26-36 years and the less UTI in the age group 36-47 years, also this study found high infections of urinary tract in married rather than unmarried women and high uses of ceftriaxone followed by ceftriaxone / metronidazole and the less uses was levofloxacin in the treatment of women with the UTI.

Keywords: UTI, antibiotics.