I will be an expert in ‘analyzing’ pee very soon. Today, I collected Baby C’s pee again for the routine FEME urine test. One look and one sniff of the pee in the bottle, I knew it’s going to be fine…. and true, the WBC has dropped to 1-2 (from 10+ on Friday last week).
For the benefit of other mothers with kids who previously had UTI, if you ever want to know if your baby’s pee is infected or not, just get your baby / toddler to pee into a transparent bottle. If the pee is clear (you can see by holding the bottle up with your hand against sunlight or just below the ceiling lights), then most likely, the pee is not infected. If the pee is cloudy (with color like barley water or diluted milk) with lots of particles floating inside the pee, most likely your baby has a UTI. My pediatric nephrologist taught me this. Sometimes, you will see some particles floating in the pee even if the pee is clear. The floating particles could be some tissues from the lining of the bladder and does not mean that your baby has an infection.
To quell my phobia of another UTI attack, I will do this simple checking every other day. It’s going to be very time-consuming as it’s extremely difficult to collect Baby C’s pee and troublesome but I will do anything to save my baby’s kidney from being scarred.
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haahaa…you are really good at this eh?
wow pee expert mom..new title for you supermom!
Its nice of you to share the information! ;p
thanks for the tip!
sounds tedious! you’re a good mom shireen! Cassandra is lucky to have a mom like you.
Valuable information for other mommies like me .. thanks much for sharing. Hope Baby C will soon get well enough to put all this behind her.
Ya very time-consuming procedures. You are a great mom!!
u r a “true mom”
willing to do all these….