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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Laine,
I'm not sure the cranberry juice is necessary. D-mannose alone is an effective treatment. Here's where we first learned about it eight years ago. And there are many, many other threads about it in the archives.
Progress report and supplement that's helping
Basically, it works by helping to prevent E. coli bacteria from attaching to bladder walls, as I recall.
Tex
I'm not sure the cranberry juice is necessary. D-mannose alone is an effective treatment. Here's where we first learned about it eight years ago. And there are many, many other threads about it in the archives.
Progress report and supplement that's helping
Basically, it works by helping to prevent E. coli bacteria from attaching to bladder walls, as I recall.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I find taking the powder D manoose works a charm. 3/4 teaspoon mixed with water. Twice a day if UTI for several days. Looking at the label 3/4 teaspoon is 1600 mg. Never had D from it.
Mom has late stage alzheimers. I have her on a preventative dose of 1/2 teaspoon mixed with water once a day. No side effects. This has cut her UTIs down to about once every 12 months. Before the daily preventative dose of D manoose she was getting chronic UTIs that she never could shake even with oral antibiotics. The oral antibiotics never seemed to heal the UTIs. I think because she is celiac she doesn't absorb oral antibiotics well.
Mom has late stage alzheimers. I have her on a preventative dose of 1/2 teaspoon mixed with water once a day. No side effects. This has cut her UTIs down to about once every 12 months. Before the daily preventative dose of D manoose she was getting chronic UTIs that she never could shake even with oral antibiotics. The oral antibiotics never seemed to heal the UTIs. I think because she is celiac she doesn't absorb oral antibiotics well.
Thanks guys-
Sorry, looks like I double posted this!!! Gosh Tex, I love cranberry juice!!! Will just keep it and drink little bits daily. Well, that would mean I would be taking 8 of those pills a day huh?? Can do, just think this feels like possibly a UTI.
Think I should just go get the d mannose powder and skip the combo cranberry/d mannose capsules??? Any harm in taking the cranberry powder??
Laine
Sorry, looks like I double posted this!!! Gosh Tex, I love cranberry juice!!! Will just keep it and drink little bits daily. Well, that would mean I would be taking 8 of those pills a day huh?? Can do, just think this feels like possibly a UTI.
Think I should just go get the d mannose powder and skip the combo cranberry/d mannose capsules??? Any harm in taking the cranberry powder??
Laine
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are"-Teddy Roosevelt
Since you don't seem to be debilitated by the stinging in the bladder the DMannose should work great alone.
I used it as a follow up after my antibiotic round and I just learned that DMannose also helps to remove lectins when we overindulge in them ;-)
I used it as a follow up after my antibiotic round and I just learned that DMannose also helps to remove lectins when we overindulge in them ;-)
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Dx LC April 2012 had symptoms since Aug 2007
Dx LC April 2012 had symptoms since Aug 2007
Laine,
As far as I know cranberry juice shouldn't cause any negative effects (to the contrary, it should help) so if you tolerate it well, there shouldn't be anything wrong with drinking it. I didn't mean to imply that there was anything inherently bad about it.
Tex
As far as I know cranberry juice shouldn't cause any negative effects (to the contrary, it should help) so if you tolerate it well, there shouldn't be anything wrong with drinking it. I didn't mean to imply that there was anything inherently bad about it.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Laine, Google Chris Kressler, D-Mannose for UTI. He discussed how many tablets D-Mannose to take/how often for a UTI. I didn't have a UTI for years until I got one last summer. Since then I take 1 500 mg. D-Mannose per day as a preventive.
Marcia
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor and some style. - M. Angelou