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OCCURRENCE OF URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS AND PROMOTING FACTORS AMONG PYURIC DIABETICS PATIENTS

Dr Abid Ali, Dr Sadaf Zahid, Dr Muhammad Amin

Objectives: The purpose of this research work is to find out the occurrence of Urinary Tract Infection in the patients of pyric diabetes and to determine the frequency of the sterile pyuria among these patients as well as determination of the prompting risk factors to these urinary tract infections. Methodology: This study is a prospective research work conducted in the DHQ Teaching Hospital D.G Khan. The duration of this research study was from May 2019 to July of 2019. We used the convenient method for sampling. The size of the samples was 60 patients. All the adults with more than sixteen year of age with Diabetes Mellitus and pyuria (greater than four pus cells / HPF) whose report for urine culture was present were the part of this research work. We took the written consent from all patients. We collected all the information on a well-organized Performa. SPSS V.20 was in use for the statistical analysis of the collected information. Results: There were total 60 patients with pyric diabetic were the participants of this research work. The frequency of urinary tract infection was 58.618% (40 out of 60), the rate of occurrence of the sterile pyuria was 37.168% (20 out of 60). The occurrence of the urinary tract infection was more in female gender with symptoms of infection in lower urinary tract and frank pains. High level of serum creatinine, positive nitrates, proteinuria, stone disease and hindered pelvicalyceal system were highly present in the patients with positive culture as compared to the patients present with negative culture. Conclusions: Pyuric diabetic samples of this research work were present to have the positive culture for urinary tract infections in 58.618% patients and with negative-culture sterile pyuria in 37.168% patients. The prevalence of the urinary tract infection was high among females. Keywords: Diabetes Mellitus, Urinary Tract Infection, Pyuric, Screening, Prevalence, Nitrates.

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