It usually gets cured in a week. Sometimes only three days.
For acute urinary tract infection 3 - 4 days, for a chronic urinary tract infection it could take up to 10 days.
An urinary tract infection happens when bacteria travels from the urethra to the bladder. Incubation times varies from a few days to a few weeks depending on the type of bacteria that caused the infection.
No, it is not healthy. It can cause you to have a urinary tract infection or kidney infection by holding it.
Antibiotics may be prescribed as a preventative measure in long-term urinary catheterization patients who are at risk for urinary tract infection.
Urinary tract infections are not contagious.
To accurately diagnose a urinary tract infection, your cat will need to visit the Vet. The Vet will help you determine the appropriate course of treatment, if necessary. Giving an animal medications without knowing with certainty what is causing the symptoms you're seeing can mask some symptoms and, in the long run, worsen the animal's condition.
Holding urine is definitely not good! If it sits in your bladder for a long time it can cause a urinary tract infection, bladder infection or even a kidney infection.
It all depends on what you take for it and waht your docter says.
UTIs are usually treated well with antibiotics. They only turn fatal if the bacteria causing the infection spreads to the kidney and the bloodstream, but this only occurs if the initial infection is left untreated.
Cranberry juice is for a urinary tract infection (recent studies show this may not really have an effect.) For a yeast infection you need to get medication, Monostat is an over the counter cure.
You could have a kidney stone, a urinary tract infection, a bladder infection...the list is long. Go see a doctor. It shouldn't hurt to pee.
As long as you see your doctor ASAP, depending on how strong the antibiotics is you should start to feel less pain within 12-24 hrs.