We decided against the test. DD had one UTI at about 14 months. Our ped said that we could and see if she has another. We then saw a ped urologist, who was a jerk (didnt even look at DD once during the appt and basically told us that we should do the test that dau inhis office. We said no thank you. Finally found an awesome ped nephrologist, very well-respected and practicing at a very good and well-know hospital. She was wonderful. Really explained everything to us, had great bedside manner with DD, took her time and let us ask a million questions. What she told us that the medical community is really split on this. There seems to be e movement away from doing the test after just one UTI and she did not recommend it. Basically said wait and see and we can reevaluate if another UTI occurs. We also asked about the typical treatment, which is prophylactic antiobiotics and she said that it used to be the standard, but now there seems to be a lot of info against it - from the perspective of the health effects to actual effectiveness. I really didnt want to do the test so this really helped me make the decision against it. But this is my decision based on my DD's health and history (no known VUR), lots pf research and discussions with 3 doctors. So now we watch for signs of another UTI, we bought those Bayer urine test strips and test DDs urine if she seems off. We alos give her prophylactic d-mannose, which is supposed to treat and prevent UTIs. She gets half tsp every day i her drink. We use the Now brand - has great reviews on iherb.com, but I buy it on Amazon b/c it is cheaper. So that's my (long) story. Oh, and DD is almost 2 and has not had another infection.
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