Posted on 10/15/2023 8:48:35 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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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