Hi Crew-
I'm off today, working the weekend. I have a question regarding UTI's. I have been feeling just generally rough the past week or so, then sort of got the vague low back pain. Took tylenol for the past few days then sort of dawned on me that maybe I have a UTI. I've really only had like 1 in my life that I can remember and that I attributed to not drinking enough fluids when I was working home care and driving all over the place. At the time I just had the same sort of symptoms (no burning or anything...actually think I noticed blood in my urine at the time). Back then (like 15 years ago) I just slammed myself with cranberry juice and cranberry capsules and it went away.
Anyway, got online yesterday and it seems like cranberry capsules/d mannose is the new recommended thing. So stopped at Vitamin Cottage last night and bought the capsules and some straight up cranberry juice with no added sugar. Of course diarrhea is a side effect of taking too much of this d mannose which is a type of sugar. Yesterday I took 2 of the capsules which contain 400 mg of the cranberry extract (vaccinium macrocarpon) and 1000 mg of d-mannose.
Also had like 4 ounces of cranberry juice last night and this morning already. Again, no sweetened juice but it contains 9gr of sugar per 8 ounces of juice.
Anyone use this lately or have any experience with it?? Don't want to over sugar myself as I haven't been doing any juice. But if this is my issue I want to deal with this without antibiotics.
Laine
UTI???
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UTI
I'm very susceptible to UTI's and my consultant recommended taking cranberry tablets and drinking cranberry juice. This was 10 years ago. A few months ago they published the results of a trial in an old people's home in the UK where half of the residents were given cranberry tablets and half weren't. Apparently there was no difference between the two groups regarding UTI's.