poppy71

I have a beautiful little girl who is four years old. She has been having recurring UTI's which are getting increasingly hard to get rid of.
The first few were treated with just regular antibiotics, but in January she was found to have a Pseudomonas infection. That was treated with Cipro and she was placed on a daily dose of Macrodantin, but the Pseudomonas came back just over a month later. Again she was treated with Cipro, taken off of Macrodantin and placed on a daily dose of Septra. Again she became infected a month later. This time the infection was a Citrobacter infection. She was placed on a third round of Cipro, but this time it came back just two weeks after coming off of the Cipro. She was given a prescription for a fourth round of Cipro. Prior to taking this round of Cipro she was given three days worth of an Intra-Muscular antibiotic which we were told would kill anything.
She is on her 6th day of the Cipro, but she is showing symptoms of another UTI. We go for the umpteenth urinalysis in the morning.
We just had a Cystogram done, where we found out that she has Reflux into her right Kidney. This did not show up when they did her VCUG a few months ago. Also what has shown up both times is that her bladder is very large and shaped like an elongated number 8. We are now scheduled for another ultrasound and a surgery to hopefully correct the reflux.
Has anyone had experience with something similar? I am very concerned about the possible effects to her Kidneys from these infections. Does anyone know of what I might do to help ward off new infections? I have now become a germophobe. My daughter takes showers only now as I don't want her "sitting" in water. I still bleach my tub out nightly, she is on a schedule to go potty every two hours, she has her own potty seat again... Is there anything else I could be doing?