Essentials for diagnosis 
(1) Clinical manifestations: The main symptom of urinary tract infection in newborns is general poisoning accompanied by apathy, food refusal and irritability or no weight gain. Infants have inapparent local symptoms, but mostly general symptoms such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea, poor appetite and no weight gain. During childhood, besides fever and shiver, local symptoms often occur such as frequent and urgent urination, lower abdominal pain and percussion tenderness on the kidney region.

(2) Laboratory examinations: Urine test may find a large number of white blood cells or pus cells. Besides, urine culture helps diagnosis. Routine urine examination and urine bacteriological examination should be repeatedly conducted if unknown fever, no weight gain, frequent urination, enuresis, etc. occur in infants.

In TCM, a disease or a symptom might be caused by one pathogenic factor, even two or three pathogenic factors. When diagnosing a disease or a symptom, TCM doctors must follow the principle of "Syndrome Dfferentiation", and then "Suit the Remedy to the Case". In order to gain a more definite and valuable diagnosis, it's important and necessary for the doctor to learn the detailed health information of the patient, including his/her disease duration, age, sex, height, weight, family history, urine, stool, diet, sleep, sweat, energy, mood (emotion), as well as the tongue conditions and the palm conditions, etc. If you would want our expert to create a TCM diagnosis, you're welcome to contact us.