Acute uncomplicated cystitis in women. The essentials of first-line management.

In the absence of fever and low back pain, there is a high probability that a female patient has acute uncomplicated cystitis if she reports dysuria' and urinary frequency but no vaginal discharge or pruritus. The antibiotic therapy of choice for an episode of acute uncomplicated cystitis is a single oral dose of fosfomycin trometamol. In patients with recurrent infections, the strategy that results in the lowest antibiotic exposure without impairing efficacy is to treat each episode as soon as the first clinical symptoms appear.