WHY does it burn when i pee?
See your doctor if: * The burning persists for more than 24 hours after you’ve tried self-help remedies. * Burning is accompanied by a discharge from your vagina or penis. * In addition to burning, you urinate frequently, feel sudden urges to urinate or experience any flulike symptoms, fever, chills or back pain. What Your Symptom Is Telling You Complaints of burning upon urination, often accompanied by frequent urges to urinate, send eight million women to the doctor’s office every year. The usual source of the problem is a urinary tract infection (UTI). One out of every five women gets a urinary tract infection at least once a year, and of those, 15 percent contract more than three a year. Why are women so prone to UTIs? Both the rectum and the vagina are perfect incubators for bacteria that all too easily find their way to the nearby urethra, the exit tube for urine. And since the female urethra is not very long, it provides an easy route for the bacteria to invade the bladder, caus
