Rods In Dog Urine

Additionally female dogs are more susceptible to bacterial infections of the lower urinary tract than males.

Rods in dog urine.

Your dog needs to go on some type of fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as baytril zeniquin or cipro. These are needed to get the best chance of getting rid of the infection. Active urinary sediment demonstrating bacteriuria and increased white blood cells. It is pretty severe.

However if rods are seen in the urine sediment of neutral or acidic urine e coli klebsiella spp enterobacter spp pseudomonas spp the antimicrobial sensitivity of the infecting organism is likely to be less predictable. A few of the more common signs include. Able to survive with little microaerophilic or no oxygen anaerobic actinomyces is rarely found as the single bacterial agent in a lesion. In dogs recurrent utis are due to a different strain or species of bacteria 80 of the time.

With 21 to 50 wbc and rod bacteria these are usually big red flags in an urinary tract infection bladder infection. Antimicrobial therapy should be started as previously described and when urine culture is negative continued daily at the total daily dose. Therefore antimicrobial culture and susceptibility is still indicated. Confirmed with a microscopic urine sediment examination see figure 1.

Blood in urine hematuria cloudy or malodorous urine.