Symptoms of Cystitis

Cystitis is a too common disease that causes inflammation in our urinary tract, particularly in the bladder carrying the urine. Painful symptoms of cystitis are not understood at the initial stage and to avoid misconception regarding the disorder that impels you more often than usual to urinate while all the time suffering from the inflammation in the lower abdomen, you need to be attended medical examination and diagnosis as early as possible. There is great many people who readily tend to consider the symptoms as pertaining to kidney stone and this is the reason why understanding the symptoms of cystitis is so important. Cystitis is the main or principal type of urinary tract infection that occurs due to bacterial infection in the urine carrying bladder. Let us now have a look at the clinical aspects of cystitis before continuing our discussion on various sub types of cystitis and the symptoms of cystitis.

Clinical description

Cystitis is the disease that refers to a medical condition where our bladder in the urinary tract is infected by bacterial infection and causes inflammatory symptoms. The inflammation of the bladder or more particularly to say inflammation of the lining of the bladder which is responsible for the symptoms of cystitis is mainly caused by a bacterial infection. A bacteria called Escherichia Coli is responsible for the infection and as per medical data in 80% or vast majority of cases of urinary tract infection this bacteria is responsible. Cystitis is one of the most common infections to occur in the lower urinary tract irrespective of age and genders. While the bladder and the urethra remains sterile or free of any bacteria, this bacterial infection infects the lining of the bladder and causes inflammation and irritation. As the outer urinary passage in women is closer to the anus, the possibility of bacterial exposure is slightly higher and this is the reason why all types of urinary tract infections including the symptoms of cystitis are more common in women than men.

Some of the common sub types of cystitis include traumatic cystitis that commonly occurs in women as bacteria reaches from bowel movement to urethra, interstitial cystitis that occurs mainly because of injury to the bladder, eosinophilic cystitis that is occurred mainly due to certain medicinal interactions in children, hemorrhagic cystitis that occurs as a side effect of radiation therapy, etc. Normally the symptoms of cystitis from one sub type to the other do not vary to a great extent except for posing different challenges to the medication and treatment.

Clinical symptoms

Some of the most common and regularly diagnosed symptoms of cystitis include,

1. Pressure experienced in the lower pelvis area.
2. Feeling frequent urge to urinate yet coming out every time with little urine.
3. Painful urination or dysuria.
4. Urine containing traces of blood or dark, cloudy and foul smelling urine.
5. Pain in the lower abdomen.
6. Feeling fatigued, week and sick because of frequent painful urination and consequent dehydration.