Smelly urine

**little_O** · July 5th, 2014, 02:54 PM

Dd2 is 5 months. She is exclusively breastfeeding.

The last couple of weeks she has had occasional smelly urine. It is still clear, but very strong smelling.

I took her to the doctors last Monday and they asked if I could do a dipstick test on a wet nappy. It has coloured up for Nitrates in her urine, no blood and a small amount of pus cells. I can't guarantee when she did the wee in the nappy, so I am not 100 percent certain there wouldn't have been bacteria already started in the nappy. It would have been changed within 2 hours of the last though.

Anyways, now I have a sticky bag thing in her nappy trying to catch some urine for the doctor so they can get it properly analysed. 1st attempt she pooed.

second time dh put it in and it didn't stick properly and she only got a drop in there and the rest in the nappy

now I have the last one I have in and am hoping for the best. Fx!

However, she has no fever, is drinking as per normal, it quite happy and content as per normal. Dd1 has had a uti before and she was really ill with high fever. She had the smelly urine too. Dd2 just isn't ill apart from a cough that she's had for a while.

What else could the smelly urine be from? I'm at a loss. I really hope she doesn't have a uti. I feel like a bad mum if she does have one, but we honestly change a poo-ey nappy as soon as she does it. I change her wet nappy as soon as I realise. She has a bath every day.

Is there something completely innocent that the smell could be from?

**little_O** · July 7th, 2014, 02:48 PM

**onthefly** · July 7th, 2014, 03:33 PM

They'd need a clean sample to really tell anything, I would think. So easy to be contaminated from the bum or elsewhere.
I found sitting DD on a potty with a jar under her and just sitting there waiting was more effective than those bags. And you're more likely to get a clean sample, too. Good luck!

**Taurean** · July 7th, 2014, 10:38 PM

It can be from the food you've eaten. Garlic, onions, asparagus and an array of other foods always made my daughter's wees smell. Try a simple food diary, it could very well be something in your diet.

**~TT40~** · July 7th, 2014, 10:56 PM

Try onthefly's way, and put a cold washer on her belly, more often than not it makes them wee =)

**surprised** · July 7th, 2014, 11:57 PM

Have you been eating asparagus?

**little_O** · July 8th, 2014, 02:17 AM

No asparagus, nothing really different in my diet.

Got the results today and she has a highish reading of pus cells, but no blood cells. I have to do another sample of Wednesday and see if it's increasing or decreasing. So odd

**little_O** · July 10th, 2014, 06:34 PM

So I just received the results for her second sample and she definitely has a uti. Still no fever or any other symptoms apart from the smelly urine. She has a cold at the moment but that's obviously not related.

I hate that I have to give her antibiotics now. She's only 5 months. Am I going to completely stuff up her gut now?

It's not like I can even give her cranberry juice or anything either because of her age.

**Frangipani Lou** · July 10th, 2014, 07:06 PM

I wonder I'd probiotics as well would help. Perhaps Bioceuticals Baby Biotic. I had to give DD antibiotics at around that age and I wasn't happy either. Are you bf?

**little_O** · July 10th, 2014, 07:17 PM

Yeah she is exclusively bf.

Is the baby biotics ok at that age then? I have the bioceuticals one for dd1 but I didn't have to give them to her till she was around 1.

I know the antibiotics are better than her getting kidney damage, I just worry about all the other side effects.