Associated factors and general description urinary tract infection in children

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common condition in childhood. Recognized as precipitant of acute and chronic diseases with a high morbidity. Proper diagnosis is important to minimize the onset of renal scarring, kidney failure and high blood pressure in adulthood. Prophylaxis indications have changed in recent years. Objective: To present the current knowledge on pathogenesis diagnosis and subsequent handling (ITU). Methodology: A literature review from 1995 to 2016 was conducted in the databases Scielo, Elsevier, PubMed, Redalyc, ScienceDirect, Medwave, Nature Reviews, EBSCO, Naxos, Databases offered by the University of Cauca. MeSH terms and DESC was used - “Urinary Tract Infection, Risk factor, children, diagnostic, treatment,” in English and Spanish with a total of 276 documents. They were then evaluated with the respective instruments of critical reading articles like this: CONSORT for clinical trials, STROBE for observational studies, meta-analysis PRISMA for and AGREE to guide clinical practice, filtering a total of 58 documents. The free access Mendeley program was used for information management. Results: The knowledge (UTI) in children has advanced further toward preventing scarring and disease prevention in adulthood. Prophylactic indications have changed to be terser. Conclusions: (UTI) is common in pediatrics. They have changed the handlings, for now more studies are needed in our population.