E Coli - Henderson,NV

A certain amount of E.coli lives naturally in your bowels/colon/large intestine. Therefore, they are in feces. So it's very important to wash your hands well after you use the bathroom so you don't promote the fecal-oral route, which can make you very sick or cause illness in others if you prepare foods with unclean hands. The bladder, on the other hand, is a sterile environment so improper wiping can cause bacteria to go up into your bladder causing infection. Always wipe from front to back and urinate after sexual intercourse. You can also drink cranberry juice daily to help reduce the risk of UTIs. Hope this helps and that you feel better soon. Take care.

This probably is NOT your case, but I will put it out there anyway. Reptiles carry E Coli. Turtles, iguana's, lizards...just an FYI to you and all mothers out there with small children. An iguana in a house with a small one, can almost be the same as throwing raw chicken around.
Everyone should be prevy to washing their hands while exposed to these creatures.

hope you feel better!!!
M:)

To cut to the chase, it comesfrom feces/poop. I'm sure that's something you didn't want to hear! Bladder/urinary tract infections are caused from the Ecoli bacteria from improper wiping, hygeine, and sexual relations can cause them. Feel better soon!

Well the news in OK just had a HUGE recall on eggs from Iowa. They are contaminated with E Coli. The shells are and when they are cracked they are infecting the inside of the egg. If you eat your eggs over easy or soft boiled that might very well be where you got it. It is not contagous as far as i know, but if your family eats them they could have it too. You might check out your local news to see if it was in your area too.

Hi Nicole,

No, E coli is not 'contagious' per say - except that if you got it from something you ate anyone else who ate it would also get infected. But now that you have it, you can't pass it to someone else - unless you touch your bodily functions and then someone 'ingests' the bacteria - ewwwww.lol.

check out the info under urinary tract infections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli

Hope you feel better - being sick is NO FUN!!!!!!

Hi Nicole,

You've gotten good advice so far -- nothing to add from me medically. I just wanted to clear up a small misconception that's appeared here twice. The egg recall is because of Salmonella, not E. coli. They're two completely different types of bacteria. Salmonellosis is usually a food-bourne illness, but can also cause other local infections, such as bladder infections, or can cause illness as a result of an overgrowth of normal intestinal tract varieties caused by immune dysfunction or antibiotic use. Escherichia coli, also is a normal human gut bacteria, and infection from human feces is not usually serious. A new and highly virulent strain ( O157:H7) has arisen in recent years in beef cattle, however. This is the strain that's responsible for hemorrhagic diarrhea, and which can be fatal in the very young, elderly, or immune suppressed -- and even some (previously) healthy individuals.

Both Salmonella and E. coli enter our foods through modern agricultural and food production processes. Antibiotic use in chickens has led to the development of resistant strains that infect the interior of the egg -- not just the shell. Want to be really horrified? Watch the documentary "Food, Inc." I think every adult in the country needs to see this film, so that we might have a chance at cleaning up a dirty industry and replacing it with more ethical, sustainable, and healthier alternatives. If you have NetFlix, you can download it for free until the end of August.

Not contagious! could of been anything you ate and contained feces, back track on what you ate in the past 72 hours. There is a big recall on eggs right now so you might want to check on that. E Coli is only really dangerous if your immune system is weak, small children and the elderly. Just take the medication get some rest and you should be fine.

By taking antibiotics you'll expose yourself to the risk of further infections with increasing severity. I’d suggest you explore alternative routes of treating bacterial invasions in your body.
Good Luck
V.

E.Coli is responsible for 90% of bladder infections, so you probably do have a bladder infection and when they tested your urine, it had e.coli. E.Coli is transmitted via the fecal-oral route. Obviously, you are not eating poop, but it could be something simple like swimming in a river, and accidentally ingesting the water which has animal feces in it or through contaminated food. It is not contagious, unless like the other post said, another person ate the same contaminated food.