My daughter had the surgery in August. The surgery will help keep UTI's from
going to her kidney's but will not prevent UTI's at all. Right now my daughter
has had one and then another right after. But it's not the kind that made her
severely ill like before. Which means it stayed in her bladder.

--- In ureteral_reimplantation@yahoogroups.com, "Courtney" <corkykell@...>
wrote:
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> Two out of three of my children have had to have the ureteral reimplantation
surgery. My oldest son was diagnosed at age 3 with reflux on the right side.
He had his surgery and was fine. Since we were told it was a genetic condition,
we had our other children tested via ultrasound. Our second son did not have it
but our third child, a girl, had reflux grade 5+ on both sides. She was
operated on 3 days before her first birthday. Unlike our first son, she did
have stents placed for 6 weeks. For the first year and a half, she was symptom
free. Once we started potty training, she began having UTI's again. All tests
have been repeated numerous times. Two or three years later, we still are
getting UTI's every 6-8 weeks-even on antibiotics. Our final test to repeat is
a VCUG. We are hoping after this procedure, we will have an idea of what is
happening to her. She is now 5 years old. Has anyone ever had difficulties
after their child has had surgery? I am new to this site so any ideas are
greatly appreciated.
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