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Preventing and Curing Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
Urinary tract infections, or UTI’s, are among the most common reasons for doctors to use antibiotics. Repeat treatments with antibiotics, however, often have unpleasant side effects, such as diarrhea and yeast overgrowths. And each antibiotic treatment often results in resistant organisms so that subsequent infections need stronger and stronger antibiotics.
Vitamin C and Cranberry
For those patients who show a tendency to get repeated UTIs, doctors often resort to vitamin C and cranberry juice as ways to help keep infections from starting. Both vitamin C (500 mg four times a day) and cranberry juice acidify the urine, discouraging the growth of bacteria.
D-mannose
These infections can only happen if the bacteria can adhere to the wall of the bladder to avoid being washed out by urination. It seems that E.coli, the bacteria that causes most UTIs, has a particular affinity for the bladder wall. D-mannose is a 6 carbon sugar much like glucose except that the body does not use it, so it is excreted into the urine. While in the urine, E.coli seems to have a greater affinity for D-mannose than it does for the bladder wall. Thus, when time comes to urinate, the bacteria are washed out rather than remaining in the bladder, curing the infection.
Recommendation
D-mannose is completely safe, has no side effects, and can even be used by diabetics. It would seem reasonable that every case of UTI should attempt to be cured with D-mannose before resort to antibiotics.
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