Yay! Looking forward to your posts. If I can use herbal supplementation rather than a pharmaceutical, I’ll do it every time. Last week I learned about corn silk tea, and am going to start including it in my daily routine. Do you have any thoughts on that?
Corn silk is a very useful diuretic and so helps keep the kidneys and urinary system in good working order. If a person has a tendency towards UTIs and/or water retention, it is totally safe to drink the tea daily. If a person has a tendency towards dryness such as dry skin, dry innards, etc then it should be drunk only as needed. I have some that in my cupboard that I drink occasionally, as I have a tendency towards water retention and sometimes get UTIs. Maybe I’ll make some today. And it has the added advantage that it tastes good.
Another good thing to help prevent UTIs is D-Mannose, it’s the kind of sugar that is in cranberries that takes out bactera in the urinary system, so helps reduce the incidence of UTIs. I take that if I feel some disturbance in the system. I buy it in bulk at Amazon, way cheaper than taking any other way, and it tastes good too, I just take 1 t. in a small cup of warm water to dissolve it. Yummy in fact. Why bother with caps or tablets that have extra ingredients and higher price? I keep in a glass jar with tight lid to keep out moisture. I’ve had a jar for 2 years, perfectly good still.
If UTIs are a problem, or other urinary problems, I know some other things that help too. I have a friend who suffers from occaisonal but frequent urinary incontinence, and she is only in her 20s, and no apparant organic problem. So I have looked this up quite a bit.