SAN DIEGO—Women who are at risk for urinary tract infections who increased their daily water intake reduced their infection risk by almost 50%, according to a presentation at IDWeek 2017.
“While doctors have long assumed this is the case and often recommended that women at risk for UTIs increase their fluid intake, it’s never really undergone a prospective trial before,” said Thomas M. Hooton, MD, the clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the