can bladder infections travel to other parts of the body and not the kidneys?

Answer 1

no,

if you hold your pee as does not let them going out. the infection will overfill the vessel from kidney to bladder. it will travel back to kidney. it will cause serious infection if kidney start counter-travel to blood circulation

Answer 2

The bladder is connected to the Kidneys for its main function of receiving the urine and holding it until it is time to empty.Since there is a normal Gravity guided flow of urine continually from kidneys to the bladder, the chances of infecting bacteria traveling towards the kidneys are less. But when the patient is bed ridden, this advantage is lost, and chances of infection moving up increases.The blood vessels that supply the Bladder are also like- wise protected from infection as long as the gravity of blood is adequate to maintain a downward pressure, and when horizontal, the risk of infection goes up.

Answer 3

The bladder is a unique, sterile environment. Usually bladder infections are caused by bacteria like E. coli that are normally found in other areas in your body. The way you get a bladder infection is when these bacteria that you already had on you, and that weren't causing any infection or problems before, travel into your urethra where they shouldn't be. The bacteria that cause UTIs are usually very non-infectious anywhere else in the body.

However, some UTIs are caused by bacteria that can infect elsewhere, like gonorrhea. However these infections don't start in the bladder, they start elsewhere and then travel TO the bladder.

Answer 4

The normal way of a UTI is bladder first, then on to the kidneys if given enough time. Once in the kidneys, things can get real bad, real fast. Since the kidneys are so vascular, the infection can get into your blood stream and you can become septic (infection in the blood). Once your septic the infection can go anywhere, and getting to a doctor fast is a priority so you can get on antibiotics.

Answer 5

bladder infections often lead to infection of kidney which is a retrograde spread, kidney produce urine n drain into the bladder through the ureters. n it's indeed possible at times the infection if fulminant can disseminate to the blood stream called septiceamia which means seeding of infection to all other organs through blood. but affection to the kidneys is quite risky as patient might end up in a renal failure.
hence even minor urinary tract infections eed medical attention

Answer 6

Why not the kidneys?