If you irritate things (and cycling can irritate, particularly if your saddle is not quite right), you set up pathways to infection (consider--scratch healthy skin and you might not even see a reaction; scratch dry irritated skin and it leaves a mark and may get infected). Yes, lots of water, shower right away, keep the shorts clean (hot water and a non-perfumed, preferably hypoallergenic cleaning agent) but also drink cranberry juice. 8oz every day.
Cranberry and blueberry have compounds that can reduce the number of bacteria that will hang around in the bladder and cause infection. http://www.drmirkin.com/women/1335.html Years and years ago a nurse practitioner at a health clinic taught me about cranberry juice. Best advice I ever received. Some of us, due to anatomical variation, are just more prone to UTIs.
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04-28-2009, 06:39 AM #4
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