African Women Experiencing Perimenopause: Urinary Tract Infection (original) (raw)

This paper focuses on women in the poorer nations, such as in Africa, who experience perimenopause and are coping with symptoms associated with perimenopause. Perimenopause is a condition involving changes in the hormones that impacts women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s lasting 4-10 years ("Perimenopause Symptoms," n.d.). The urinary tract infection (UTI), a symptom of perimenopause, has been reported to be result from the spread of various bacteria (Iregbu & Nwajiobi-Princewill, 2013). The reoccurrence of urinary tract infections (rUTIs) experienced by African women, when antibiotics are not effective and vaccinations are not protective, to underlying diseases may be evident after digesting the literature describing the hematogenous and ascending routes of the bacteria. Natural approaches will be presented to assist women who experience this symptom. Urinary Infections and Diagnoses Urinary tract infections may be characterized as "cystitis (bladder infection), pyelonephritis (kidney), urethritis (inflammation of the urethra, the tube that drains urine from

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