How do you get a urinary tract infection? ?

had blood in my urin went to dr thinking kidney stone but he said i had a "low uti" which i guess is a small urinary tract infection. never had one before didn't know how you get it.

A low uti is an infection of the bladder and possibly the urethra. These infections are very easy to get and are most common in women. Having sexual relations, taking a bubble bath or bath with any kind of additive in the water, wiping the wrong way after using the bathroom, taking certain antibiotics, poor person Hygiene, and holding the unine too long when you have to pee. These are the most common ways to get a UTI. They must always be treated with antibiotics. The symptoms may go away but in most cases the infection itself is still there. Left untreated, it can travel to the kidneys and cause severe kidney infection and kidney damage. Symptoms of a kidney infection are pain in the lower back (flank area) fever, nausea, vomiting....you will know if you have one. Drs used to recommend cranberry juice to help fight a UTI, but recent studies have shown that cranberry juice actually does nothing. Now most doctors have quit recommending it, but still recommend drinking lots of fluids. (non caffeine fluids)......

a "low" uti, means the infection is in your bladder and has not yet progressed to your kidneys, good that you went to the doctor, or it would have progressed to the kidneys and then you would be in deep trouble.
Urinary tract infections are caused by bacteria getting into the bladder through the urethra, a somewhat unusual circumstance for men because their urethras are obviously considerable longer that a woman's. However, not consuming enough water, not urinating immediately after sex and poor hygiene habits can cause such infections in men.

Having sex with an unclean woman.

salty foods are common cause of this kind of infection

wikipedia has all the answers...

*** sex is one.

not cleaning ur cock is another.