The Treatment for UTI
The treatment for UTI includes, in the case of typical acute form and a healthy organism, antibiotics such as Amoxacillin, Nitrofurantoin, Trimethoprim - simple or in association to Sulfamethoxazole. To get a proper treatment, it is necessary to correctly inform the specialist about other simultaneous medication or possible allergies.
This treatment almost every time achieves the desired result in a few days, but the treatment may take longer, to eradicate the infection. In prescribing a certain treatment, the doctor must be informed of historic background or distinct symptoms.
The treatment takes more time in case the UTI has recurrent character. In case of those infections caused by sexual intercourse, the dose of antibiotic is administered once after a sexual contact.
More serious cases include hospitalization and intravenous treatment. In case of increased frequency or infection of the kidney that chronicizes, your case will be taken over by an urologist or a nephrologist.
Natural methods to treat a UTI
Natural treatments are available, but their use must be approved by a specialist in this kind of medication, to make sure it is the proper one; if not, the risk of infection spreading to the kidneys is increased. It is important to eliminate the condition, not only the symptoms.
Cranberry proved for more than one century its efficiency in cases of UTI, because it contains an antioxidant, called Proanthacyamins that makes it so appropriate for this condition. A study performed in Canada showed that cranberry extract tablets are even more efficient in dealing with UTI, than cranberry juice. Cranberries were invested in 2,6 million dollars by The National Institutes of Health and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Health, for a study. Juice is most of the time unsweetened.
Bearberry or Uva Ursi is to be found in capsules, tincture or tea form and has a powerful action against bacteria like e coli or arbutin. It contains methylarbutin and may change the urine's color to green.
Goldenseal has antimicrobial effect and is to be found as capsules, tea form and tincture.
Other possibly useful plants are: the corn silk, horsetail, marshmallow root or buchu.
The efficiency of natural antibiotics in dealing with UTI
The Karolinska Institute in Sweden discovered that human body produces an antibiotic that can fight UTI. Professor Annelie Brauner underlines that, unlike other antibiotics, in which bacteria developed immunity, the one produced by the body itself in unlikely to suffer such a process. Prof Brauner suggests that it should be used in association to classic treatment methods.
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Preventing UTI With Natural Healthy Diet, Cranberry and Natural Juices
Recurrent UTIs represent very frustrating experiences for women. More than 50% of this category suffer at least once in a lifetime a urinary tract infection that them urgency to urinate, fever, back and abdominal pain.
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