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To: koan who wrote (500868)	10/28/2022 11:36:06 AM
From: NAG1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542839

koan, I wanted to ask you what happened to people with UI before they had antibiotics. Did they heal on their own? Fortunately, I am not old enough to remember a time before antibiotics ;-) I would imagine that in some cases it might clear but not before there may have been some damage to the urinary tract. In some folks, it may ascend from the bladder to the kidneys and people would develop generalized sepsis. Most of those people would probably die without antibiotics. Here is an article that speaks to it bjgp.org although, on a quick read, it appears that some in the study dropped out due to worsening symptoms