UTI Urinary tract infection

 There are a couple of ways to go about treating them WITHOUT having to go to the doctors office. It just takes persistence. And if you don't have insurance or you just don't like antibiotics, persistence will be your friend.

One of the simplest ways to go about this is by going to your local health food store or pharmacy and buying some cranberry concentrates. Don't bother with the AZO brand as the bottle doesn't have that many pills and you need a lot of them! Take more than directed. Take five at one time if it tells you to take three and so on and so forth. Take care to consume about 64 ounces of water a day. If you can, stay home the first day of treatment so you can concentrate on urinating.

You can also try using uva ursi as well, but in my experience, the cranberry concentrates work better. Also, you can take too much uva ursi where as the cranberry concentrates can be taken in excess with no real consequence. Maybe an upset stomach, but that has yet to happen to me personally. Too much uva ursi and you will find yourself vomiting or taking a trip to the emergency room. There a was a formula i tried from the health food store once with uva ursi in it. I followed the directions and got sick anyhow. Please be careful with this one. Your best bet is using it in tincture form and sucking down the 64 ounces of water.


DO NOT TAKE BOTH OF THEM AT THE SAME TIME. They will cancel each other out.

You may also want to:

Add a teaspoon of liquid chlorophyll into a few of your glasses of water.

Consume a grape-sized piece or two of fresh ginger.

Drink a couple of cups of green tea.

These will help fight the infection itself.

There is also a homeopathic remedy on the market called uricontrol. It helps keep you from being  incontinent while you are working through the infection which is very important if you ask me!

Here's to having a happy bladder :)

UPDATE: Just read some VERY disturbing news on Jezebel.com:

"A new study of over 12 million bacteria found that E. coli resistance to ciprofloxacin, which is the antibiotic most commonly used to treat UTIs, increased five-fold between 2000 and 2010. The study also found that E. coli is getting wise to Bactrim, the second most commonly prescribed UTI drug. All of this spells trouble for treating the UTIs of the future, since E. coli is responsible for between 75 and 95 percent of these infections."

Maybe people should stop using so many antibiotics already! There are fine if you don't respond to to natural remedies, but people who don't are few and far between. You can read the whole article here: http://jezebel.com/5906531/weve-bred-a-race-of-super-uti-bacteria-that-could-leave-us-in-a-world-of-hurt