Causes of recurrent UTIs include antibiotics

Our increased use of antibiotics is making urinary tract infections and recurrent UTIs harder to treat. Pixabay

This post has been updated. It was originally published on August 23, 2017.

Urinary tract infections are insanely common. Alone, they make up almost 25 percent of all infections, and more than half of women will get at least one in their lifetimes. In parallel, they’re also becoming increasingly harder to treat as the bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Some urinary tract infections (UTIs) now manage to survive multiple rounds of…