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I am a canadian student nurse and I am working as a personal support worker on the weekend with a client who always has unusual smelling urine. She complains of buring,itching, frequency and pain on voiding and I have been asked to help with numerous clean catch specimen's for this woman which go off to lab and come back saying she doesn't have a UTI.
I'm confused, she has all the signs and symptoms of a UTI but the cultures are always negative, what the heck could it be for my own curiosity!?!
OP, I think you'd better be up front with us: is this really your patient or is this a cleverly disguised homework question? You seem to be asking us to diagnose, and you know we're not allowed to do that.
If you do have a patient with these symptoms, she needs to see a urologist, sooner rather than later, so that an accurate diagnosis can be made and appropriate interventions can be decided on.
Airidis
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Okay dumb question but if they were testing for a uti and they had a kidney infection would it show on a dip test? She said she had some mild left flank pain but when you "knock" on it the area is tender but not excruciating like you'd normally see.