UTI tests in store

[carriebft]

I noticed today that my local walgreens was selling home UTI tests. Could this be something we could recommend to worried moms when they see redness/ have irritability and fear UTI or are told by doctors it could be UTI?

[Nathan1097]

I've tried those and they don't seem to work. I don't know if they test for white blood cells or what, but my dr's office has detected UTI's and actually ONCE while pregnant I had GroupB strep in my urinary tract and that had to be sent to the lab as their in-office test came back negative. For kids? Dunno. I'd go with the usual way of detecting UTI's.