preventing Bladder Infections

[Chimiska]

Kate, that is an interesting home remedy or preventative. I will have to look into that. Cranberry Juice has given me a migraine in the past. Maybe I can do vinegar. Worth a try!

[bikerchic]

GALLONS of cranberry juice to get the active ingredient which helps fight the infection, from what I've been told about the cranberry thing. With the apple cider vinegar it's pretty effective immediately. It has something to do with putting your body PH back in harmony. I don't know all the particulars just know that for me it works! I hope it works for you as well Chimiska.

Cheers!

Kate

[Geonz]

I can't do cranberry juice (or tea or a fairly long list of things, probably pH related) on an empty stomach without it bouncing back up ... but on a bagel all is peachy.

[Meaux]

I feel for you. For a while, I was getting one at least once a month, and they would escalate into kidney infections very quickly. My doctor used to call me the Crown Princess of Bladder Infections (affectionately, I've been going to see him for nearly 15 years now). I quit drinking caffeine almost altogether and things have straightened up. I did think of something that might help though, I've been drinking a lot of that Emergen-C stuff that they make to help your immune system, and I got the cranberry flavor. I noticed it has a good amount of cranberry powder and the vitamin C has kept the yeast infections away! (I heard somewhere that vitamin C raises the acidity level in the body and makes the environment very uncomfortable for those yeast-y little buggers! It's worked for me.) Maybe drinking a serving or two of that will help. It's done wonders for me!!

[KnottedYet]

I do the apple cider vinegar with equal part honey. (1 tbsp vinegar, 1 tbsp honey) In hot or cold water, depending on the day and my mood...

It's actually pretty yummy that way!

[bikerchic]

I do the apple cider vinegar with equal part honey. (1 tbsp vinegar, 1 tbsp honey) In hot or cold water, depending on the day and my mood...

It's actually pretty yummy that way!

Great idea! My Mom used to give us hot totties with whiskey, lemon and honey when we were sick, cheap cough medicine in those days!

I also got to thinking that they make Apple Cider Vinegar capsules you can buy at the health food store I'm just not sure if they would work like drinking the real thing? I'll do some research on it because that sounds like a better way of taking the vinegar for me as the honey would be overkill on the sugar intake (for me).

[Chimiska]

Thank you one and all! I am reading it all with great interest. I thought this problem was just a Little Old Lady problem. Apparently it is more common that I first thought.

I will try some of the suggestions. Again, Thanks.