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Cranberry for preventing UTIs
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| Hi everyone,
Thanks for all your replies on my transplant questions. Noticed you
were talking about cranberry juice and UTIs.
Cranberry is wonderful for preventing UTIs. I used to get an infection
every few weeks but since I started taking cranberry a couple of months
ago i haven't had a single infection.
I have type 1 diabetes so to avoid spikes in blood sugar from juice I
take cranberry in a tablet. You can get it at any chemist or health
food store and it's actually a lot better than drinking the juice for
preventing infection. Take one tablet each night before you go to bed
and say goodbye to UTIs!!! Yay!!!
Take care,
Katie
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| Larry Krzewinski 2005-09-24, 2:41 pm |
| On 4 Sep 2005 17:46:41 -0700, "Katie" <katie.field@rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Thanks for all your replies on my transplant questions. Noticed you
>were talking about cranberry juice and UTIs.
>
>Cranberry is wonderful for preventing UTIs. I used to get an infection
>every few weeks but since I started taking cranberry a couple of months
>ago i haven't had a single infection.
>
>I have type 1 diabetes so to avoid spikes in blood sugar from juice I
>take cranberry in a tablet. You can get it at any chemist or health
>food store and it's actually a lot better than drinking the juice for
>preventing infection. Take one tablet each night before you go to bed
>and say goodbye to UTIs!!! Yay!!!
>
>Take care,
>
>Katie
I've read studies that state that cranberry juice does nothing for
urinary tract infections, that it is just an old wives tale.
Larry
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| In article <k39ph1htcevu4bu4tsc6kek10r8mvvneeh@4ax.com>,
Larry Krzewinski <Feerless_Freep@madmagazine.com> wrote:
> I've read studies that state that cranberry juice does nothing for
> urinary tract infections, that it is just an old wives tale.
My urologist (head of the department) says that it does work for bladder
infections, as something in the cranberries (I forget just what right
now) helps keep bacteria from sticking to the bladder wall. It's not
very useful for kidney infections - that is, infections that start in
the kidney, as opposed to bladder infections that progress to kidney
infections.
I had this conversation just a few weeks ago with him - I *still* have a
kidney infection, even after the surgery to remove the stone that had
been living in my left kidney. I promptly produced another stone
(apatite; impressive considering my pH is 4.5 and apatite usually forms
in 7.3 or higher) and even though the infection is not a bladder
infection gone wild, he wants me to try cranberry extract on the "can't
hurt" theory. I did, and during a course of Macrodantin for a spike
inthe bacteria load, I still had impressive bacteria colonization (under
the threshhold considered to be an infection, but I was on freaking
antibiotics!).
--
"Did Father shoot him? I will eat Grandfather for dinner."
- Helen Keller, on learning of the death of her grandfather
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