Once there was a concept that women’s bladder is the safest place and spotlessly clean. But somehow thoughts have changed due to recent research. Urine in healthy women is contaminated and even showed the shared bacteria between the vagina and bladder. The beneficial bacteria that are present in the bladder and vagina are helpful for protection against urinary infections.
“Now that we know the bladder is not sterile, we have to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the bladder, and that is what we are doing,” said Alan J Wolfe, a microbiologist at the Loyola University, Chicago. This insight enables further research and delivers new analytics and treatment possibilities for urinary tract infections, urgency urinary incontinence, and other associated urinary tract disorders.
It is still a mystery to many about the locomotion of the bacteria travelling from vagina to bladder. This is because most of the bacteria lack pili or flagella that help them to move. But researches are on to have clear conception on these aspects.
