Posted on 10/15/2023 8:48:35 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A study is the first to demonstrate the long-term efficacy of electrofulguration, a minimally invasive outpatient procedure that treats chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs) among postmenopausal women.
Researchers reviewed the medical records of 96 women treated for recurrent UTIs (three or more a year) with electrofulguration between 2006 and 2012. Telephone interviews, conducted by a third-party researcher, were performed with patients who had not recently been seen by a physician.
Among the patients, 72% were considered to have had successful treatment, with no more than one UTI annually; 22% had improved, with fewer than three UTIs annually; and 6% were unchanged, according to the study. In addition, antibiotic usage declined significantly, with only 5% still on continuous antibiotics at their last follow-up compared with 74% pre-electrofulguration.
"The standard treatment for a UTI is antibiotics, which often provide relief. But some women will develop another infection within a few days or weeks, which requires another round of antibiotics, and the process continually repeats itself. Over time, these patients can build up resistant strains of bacteria or develop allergies to antibiotics, making their UTIs extremely challenging to treat. The result can be a life-threatening bout of sepsis and in some cases require the surgical removal of the bladder."
Electrofulguration targets superficial areas of chronic infection (cystitis or inflammation of the bladder) inside the bladder wall.
"Cystitis is most often the result of a UTI, so it's a vicious cycle," Dr. Zimmern said. "The UTI creates cystitis, and the cystitis can lead to chronic lesions deep in the bladder wall where bacteria thrive, protected from the effects of antibiotics."
The research builds on previous UTSW studies that identified the presence of bacterial reservoirs in these inflammatory bladder lesions as well as the short-term efficacy of electrofulguration to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections.
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Bkmrk.
My elderly mom suffers these frequently.
It can also resemble dementia in the elderly.
I stripped all sugar and yeast from my diet, followed the candida control diet for 3 months and used a candida system cleanse.
Life-altering.
It was 15 years before I had another one.
I was wondering about UTIs
My wife had the problem of repeated infections despite good diet and consuming voluminous amounts of water.
Our doctor had a scan of her gallbladder done and he said it was basically completely full of stones. They took her gallbladder out and she has had one UTI in the last several years since then. Might even be longer I honestly can’t remember.
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Eloctrofulguration will do that to a body.
“My elderly mom suffers these frequently.”
My mom, too. She lives with my brother and his family. When she starts acting weird, saying crazy things, or has trouble walking, they’ve learned to have her checked for UTI. She was in the hospital for a week once because of it
It fakes you out in the elderly, because the symptoms are different than when you’re younger.
I wish wish wish more people would try d-mannose and cranberry instead of antibiotics. Now brand makes a combo pill that I take daily and keeps me UTI free. The d-mannose makes the bladder lining slippery and allows bacteria to be flushed away with each elimination.
d-Mannose is the best! I now take it prophylactically every time I swim in the ocean (a few times a month). Have not had a UTI since I started doing that.
“I wish wish wish more people would try d-mannose and cranberry instead of antibiotics.”
I’ve been taking D-Mannose for about three years. I get mine through Amazon, by Superior Labs. It has cut my UTIs down to maybe 1/year from about 3/year. What Now do you take?
Thank you for posting this. I have a good friend who has suffered with UTI problems for years (antibiotics over and over, etc). I will pass this info along.
I take Now Mannose Cranberry. 450 mg d-mannose, 250 mg cranberry per capsule, and I take 2 per day. I also purchase through Amazon. If I ever feel like I have something coming on, which is rare, I take 4 at once and then go back to usual 2 per day and that puts me back to normal.
I used to get recurrent uti as a kid. Particularly if I drank a cup of orange juice or even looked at pineapple juice. My pediatrician at the time told my mom about cranberry juice. As an adult I just take the pills and then I’m not working against all the sugar in the juice.
Besides my D-Mannose, I buy organic unsweetened cranberry juice. It is SOUR. But I dilute it in the water bottles I drink throughout the day.
I’ve tried the unsweetened juice in water when I pregnant and was dead set against taking antibiotics and hadn’t discovered the pills yet. But other than that I just couldn’t keep choking it down, especially when the pills work just as well for me. I might try the juice again though since I’ve now discovered monk fruit sweetener. I suspect that plain cranberry juice has some other health benefits that would make it worth including.
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