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Blood in your urine. What does it mean

Additionally, your doctor could ask for a blood test, MRI, or any other tests that serve him or her to confirm a diagnosis. The treatment for hematuria depends on the diagnosis. For example, if you have a UTI, your doctor may resort to a urine culture to identify the germs that are causing the infection and prescribe the most accurate antibiotics for you. Urinary tract cancers are usually treated with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and/or surgery to extract the affected organ partially or completely. For example, the surgeon may remove the bladder and conduct a urinary diversion to reroute the urine out of your body through an opening in the abdomen and into a collecting bag. Or they may create a new bladder out of loops of the intestine. This new bladder can be directly connected to the urethra or it may need to be manually emptied with a catheter. Sometimes, the cause of hematuria can't be identified, and therefore, there's no applicable treatment. Many times, the blood in the urine disappears on its own. But if there's blood in your urine, don't dismiss it, even if it’s a small amount and/or you only see it once. Pay a visit to your healthcare professional and get yourself examined as soon as possible

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