Category: Infection

Urethral catheter: What’s it for? Is it harmful?

Undoubtedly, that I, urologist, was getting used to this thing a “Foley catheterization procedure”. But in the contrary, patients instead that seems to be naive for this thing here; a urethral catheterization system always terrified them while putting this thing into their urethra. This topic will show on the general frequent asked questions which I […]

Acute Pyelonephritis: A bacterial infection of the kidney

Acute Pyelonephritis is a bacterial infection of the kidney and falls under the responsibility of urologists. It is predominantly caused by the gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli), which normally lives as normal flora in human feces but is highly harmful when it enters the urinary tract. Routes of bacterial penetration to the kidney Acute […]

What is the best antibiotic for urinary bladder infection?

A common question when patients come to my office with bladder infection is: “What is the best single antibiotic for urinary bladder infection?” The answer is: there is no single best antibiotic. Bladder infections can be caused by many different bacterial species, each susceptible to different antibiotic classes. The only way to identify the correct […]

Balanoposthitis: Common penile skin infection

This topic we will discuss on the common penile skin infection or we called it “Balanoposthitis“. Penis is the male sex organ which lies in private area of gentlemen. In my opinion, this organ is very prioritized and valued equivalent to a couple parts like heart and brain in our physical body. If there’s something […]

Clean Intermittent Catheterization: Why? And How?

Clean Intermittent catheterization (CIC) is the urologic procedure which rarely practice in Cambodia but it is very common in western countries. CIC is used when urinary bladder function is impaired. By the way, let’s discuss about urinary bladder’s role first. Urinary bladder is an organ that has a major role on the emptying urine out […]

Am I suffering a chronic prostate infection?

As I’ve mentioned earlier about the complication of the improper acute prostate infection’s treatment which is highly skyrocket to 10% of chances that can be twisted into chronic issue which in medical term we called it as a “Chronic prostatitis”. In this topic we’ll extremely focus only on a chronic inflammation of the prostate gland […]

Am I suffering from the testicular infection?

Another common infection-relatively at the genitalia for Gentleman, that is so called- testicular infection which made patients come to see me along with the painful and swelling at his balls. As we knew that a simple men has 2 testes in his scrotal sac, but it is very uncommonly to be infected both of them […]

3 Self-remedy prevent bladder infection in female

It does matter that cystitis recur, dramatically impacted on quality of life for women who have suffered the disease. As my experience, I literally talked with fewer patients whom frequently suffered the bladder infection almost every single month. This article will mainly describes about how to prevent bladder infection or lowering the recurrence rate of […]

Why my bladder getting infected again and again?

It has been lately that I have talked about the first episode of the bladder infection. That is so-called “Acute cystitis”. Even a completed course of proper treatments, numerous patients still complaint about recurrent bladder infection through the entire year. The medical term of re-infection bladder episode despite offer a proper treatment is being called […]

What is the acute prostate infection?

Too many patients came to see me at the office with the same and lots of questions like, did I have the acute prostate infection or not? They really get upset with their urinary symptom. I will tell you what the acute prostate infection is, why it happens, and what you should do about it. […]