Rods In Dog Urine

Some dogs with bacterial infections of the lower urinary tract may not show any signs but many more do.

Rods in dog urine. Active urinary sediment demonstrating bacteriuria and increased white blood cells. With 21 to 50 wbc and rod bacteria these are usually big red flags in an urinary tract infection bladder infection. Actinomycosis is an infectious disease caused by gram positive branching pleomorphic can change shape somewhat between a rod and coccus rod shaped bacteria of the genus actinomyces most commonly the a. Chemical estimations of leukocytes are invalid in cats and only occasionally valid in dogs on urine dipsticks so they must always be confirmed cytologically.

Your dog needs to go on some type of fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as baytril zeniquin or cipro. Antimicrobial therapy should be started as previously described and when urine culture is negative continued daily at the total daily dose. 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. In dogs recurrent utis are due to a different strain or species of bacteria 80 of the time.

Blood in urine hematuria cloudy or malodorous urine. It is pretty severe. Therefore antimicrobial culture and susceptibility is still indicated. These are needed to get the best chance of getting rid of the infection.

A few of the more common signs include.