UTI from bad water?

[pinkmath.livejournal.com]

Hello Superstars!
Mom my has a UTI she started peeing blood this morning. (She is going to the doctor tomorrow morning even if I have to DRAG her there.) Anyway she is absolutely convinced that she got it from drinking the tap water at work. The tap water is not monitor by the city so who knows if it is contaminated with something.

I can't find any thing on Google saying she would get a UTI from drinking bad water. I don't think it's possible

What do you think? Any sources saying one way or the other would be helpful.

Comments

[margalite.livejournal.com]

From what I know about UTIs I think it's very unlikely that she got the infection from drinking water- usually the bacteria travel up the urinary tract to the bladder and kidneys. I think that it's much more likely that she'd get an intestinal infection if the problem was something that she was eating or drinking.