urinary tract infection? homeopathic remedies

[Tandemnursingma]

My 3 year old has a fever of 103.2. she is very sleepy and complains of pain when she urinates. she wears cloth diapers which were recently stripped and have been washed with the same detergent for two years. she's been wetting at night for the first time in a year the past few nights and it is strong. when i change her i always use a warm wet cloth to wipe her. the last couple days her genital area has remained odorous, but not yeasty. despite regular cleaning.

i have given her cranberry juice and a baking soda bath. she is sleeping now. i've called her doctor to confirm that it is a uti since she says she feels well and is not ill. "there is nofing wrong wif me, I feel well mommy. I am not ill" she says. lol

I'm on the fence about antibiotics. I know if it is a uti that is what they will prescribe. We are "newbs" in regards to natural healing and getting away from the common antibiotics for everything mindset. I fear an infection with a fever this high is in her kidneys and pretty advanced (this is the first we've known that anything was off other than the odor of her urine and genital area, which tends to happen when she eats a lot of certain things so we were keeping an eye on it). 

All I know of is to give cranberry juice and avoid baths, but give showers instead. I change her diaper regularly and have her without a cover so I can feel immediately.

[Comtessa]

I usually avoid abx like the plague, but I think with a fever that high it is probably in the kidneys.  At the point at which it reaches the kidneys, cranberry juice and baking soda isn't going to help -- IMO, this is a case where antibiotics are a good idea. 

I had an asymptomatic UTI a few years ago that became a serious kidney infection, and I tried self-treating with cranberry juice and Vit. C and bergamot baths and other home remedies for over a week.  (Didn't have good health insurance and couldn't afford the dr. visit or the VERY expensive kind of abx that I'm not allergic to.)  NOT a good idea.  I have never been sicker in my life; I was bedridden for nearly two weeks and hallucinating with the fever.  It was very, very bad.  I ended up begging money from my mother to help pay for the meds; if I hadn't, I'm not sure what would have happened to me.  In hindsight, that was a dangerous decision and I should have sought "traditional" medical help sooner. 

Check your LO's kidney areas for tenderness; if she complains of soreness in that area it's definitely an infection.  But, it's possible to have a kidney infection without the soreness (I didn't have it, which is one reason I thought I was safe to avoid meds), so I'd say in this case, IMO, abx have a role to play.  Get ahold of some probiotics to help replace her good flora, feed her lots of yogurt etc... you can avoid some of the most common side effects of the abx that way. 

[ikesmom]

I would take her in to the dr. and have the script filled for abx. you can try to treat it at home for 1 or 2 days from the first signs , but it is always good to have the abx if you need them. I would rather you treat her with abx then have to take her into hospital for kidney and catheter. If she has a fever then it is not going away. I had repeated uti infections because a little bit of the bacteria stayed in the lining of my bladder and would multiply then I'd treat it and it would start all over. I ended up with interstitial cystis and that was miserable because it doesn't really go away entirely and is very painful. 

[mom61508]

didn't read other pots but I would get some d-mannoose to have on hand in case this happens again, I get min at  heranswer.com   I have some on hand in case one comes along I'm pregnant. I've actually never used it but have read here on mothering that it works pretty good :)

Having said that I personally would go the abx route bc her fever is so high.