About 8 in 100 girls get a urinary tract infection by the time they are seven years old.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Hellstrom A, Hanson E, Hansson S, et al.
Association between urinary symptoms at 7 years old and previous urinary tract infections.
Archives of Diseases in Childhood. 1991; 66: 232-234.

 

 

 

 

 

¹ The figure for boys is 2 in 100. By the age of 16 about 11 in 100 girls and 4 in 100 boys have had an infection.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Coulthard MG, Lambert HJ, Keir MJ.
Occurrence of renal scars in children after their first referral for urinary tract infection.
BMJ. 1997; 315: 918-919.

 

 

 

 

 

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Up to the age of 6 months, boys are more likely to get an infection.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Jakobsson B, Esbjorner E, Hansson S.
Minimum incidence and diagnostic rate of first urinary tract infection.
Pediatrics. 1999; 104: 222–226.

 

 

 

 

 

³ But after the age of 6 months, girls are much more likely than boys to get a urinary tract infection.

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