{"id":4074,"date":"2026-10-19T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:57:16","slug":"questions-and-answers-about-complicated-utis-cutis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"Questions and Answers about Complicated UTIs (cUTIs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.healthywomen.org\/media-library\/ask-the-expert-questions-and-answers-about-complicated-utis-cutis.png?id=68485858&amp;width=980\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We think of UTIs as recurrent when a patient has two UTIs within six months or three UTIs within a year. A cUTI means the infection has spread outside the bladder, and that puts the patient at risk for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthywomen.org\/your-health\/what-is-sepsis\">sepsis<\/a>, which is a life-threatening response to an infection.<\/p>\n<p>With recurrent UTIs, we\u2019re talking about their frequency or how often they happen. With cUTIs, we\u2019re talking about the spread of the infection. Fortunately, cUTIs are less common.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthywomen.org\/topics\/questions-and-answers-about-complicated-utis\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think of UTIs as recurrent when a patient has two UTIs within six months or three UTIs within a year. A cUTI means the infection has spread outside the bladder, and that puts the patient at risk for sepsis, which is a life-threatening response to an infection. With recurrent UTIs, we\u2019re talking about their frequency or how often they happen. With cUTIs, we\u2019re talking about the spread of the infection. Fortunately, cUTIs are less common. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}