Can white blood cells be in your urine if you have candida?
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at
4:11 pm
I got my urine culture results back and they told me it was genital flora and not a uti. I was also told I had candida, and I got a one time pill for that. I am still urinating frequently and waking up at night several times to go pee. They did a urine sample test and said i had white blood cells in my urine.. Can this come from the candida? Or does that only happen with a uti?
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Excellent question.
"Can this come from the candida? Or does that only happen with a uti?"
Here’s what happened. Your initial urine culture was contaminated due to improper clean-catch technique.
The candida it showed is actually a normal item … when there has been contamination due to improper clean-catch.
No treatment for candida was needed, but once instituted it did kill candida, thus disturbing the normal ecological balance where yeast competes with bacteria for nutrients etc.
This effect actually encouraged bacterial overgrowth in your urinary tract… so,
You’ve got a UTI now.
Get your urine re-cultured. Ask a nurse to help with the technique so it’s truly clean-catch this time. That’ll show the real culprit and lead to rapid cure.
-MD x30y
White blood cells are only present with an infection but, if the numbers are very low, often no antibiotics are given when there is no other positive values on the urine test. A yeast infection is treated differently than a UTI but these can be present together. If your symptoms do not resolve shortly, go back and get another urine test done because the white blood cells can multiply, then progressing into a UTI. In the meantime, you should be drinking lots of water to help flush out your bladder. You can go to WebMd.com and type in urinary tract infection and read up on this condition and it’s recommended treatments.
I’m a little confused about this & I hope you can clear up my confusion. If I understand this correctly, you thought you had a UTI and you really do have vaginal candidiasis, right?
There are candidal urine infections, in essence, UTIs. Any infection of the urinary tract IS a UTI. You know, Urinary Tract Infection…UTI. And having vaginal candidiasis is a possible cause. The vagina and the urinary meatus (mee-AT-us) (the opening to the uretha) are in close anatomical proximity.
"Genital flora" is a vague term and refers to any, some or all of the normal residents (flora) that inhabit the genitalia. This could refer to a lot of bacteria & the yeast Candida albicans, none of which have been identified by the term "genital flora". As long as the numbers of these organisms is within a normal, acceptable range, you should be okay. But if the numbers are not normal, you may have a UTI. The white blood cells in your urine were detected by microurinalysis. These blood cells were seen under a microscope. Even having a few white blood cells is urine is still considered within normal but you didn’t say how many were found. Too many and it’s deemed a sign of & result of infection. If signs of infection are found in the urine, it’s a UTI.
Who told you this isn’t a UTI? Who is "they"?? How many people does it take to tell you this? Can you help me out by posting the results of the urinalysis AND the urine culture?