A small percentage of urinary tract infection sufferers struggle with their infections for a long time. Their UTI won\'t go away, and this can happen for a number of reasons. What you must avoid is, creating a drug resistant bacteria because of the amount of antibiotics you\'re using to cure your infection.

Five percent of women already need a second course of antibiotic for their bladder infections because more strains of E coli are becoming resistant to the drug. Ten million women are going to their doctor in the USA every year with UTIs so all these bacterium are getting plenty of exposure to these drugs.

Resistant infections are on the increase because antibiotics are prescribed for almost all infections. Even if you\'ve taken antibiotics in the past for other infections, the bacteria that is causing your urinary infection has still been exposed to every course you have taken.

The bacteria that causes over 90% of urinary tract infections is the E coli bacteria, and this lives in your bowel. This means that it has been exposed to every course of anti bacterial drugs you have ever taken. Before the bacteria naturally die they mutate into a stronger strain so then they breed stronger bacteria.

When drugs no longer cure your infections it\'s time to look at alternative treatments. Natural cures don\'t create resistant strains of bacteria so they work every time. They also work a lot faster than conventional treatments, and are much kinder to your immune system. Too many courses of antibiotics weaken your immune system, and they destroy your body\'s bacterial balance.

Once the beneficial bacteria in your body is killed off then you can start suffering from more infections than you have before. The most common one is a yeast infection. Yeast infections after a course of antibiotics are on the increase, because your beneficial bacteria is your body\'s natural defense against this infection.

You can\'t do the same thing every day and expect the same results. And this is the same when you\'re trying to cure a bacterial infection. All you\'re going to do is make your infection worse, and this will mean a stay in hospital if your infection reaches your kidneys.

The longer your UTI won\'t go away the more chance you have of your infection spreading to your kidneys. You must do something as soon as possible to eliminate the bacteria from your urethra. If you don\'t want to try an alternative treatment then you need to see your doctor as soon as you can.