After six months or so, friends and family who have supported you through the first difficult months might start to drift away and get on with their own lives â thinking that the worst should surely now be over. Your grief will begin to settle a bit like a stone in the bottom of your stomach.
In one trial of 241 women with acute cystitis, those randomly assigned to treatment with ibuprofen (400 mg three times daily for three days) had a higher mean symptom burden compared with those who received fosfomycin as a single 3 g dose [74].
Acute cystitis and pyelonephritis should be aggressively treated during pregnancy. Oral nitrofurantoin and cephalexin are good antibiotic choices for treatment in pregnant women with asymptomatic bacteriuria and acute cystitis, but parenteral antibiotic therapy may be required in women with pyelonephritis.