When a UTI is present -- especially a symptomatic one including fever, dark dark urine, etc. -- get your ass on the RIGHT antibiodic ASAP! No fooling around until culture* and sensitivity* reports are back.
THEN resort to possible prophylactics like cranberry capsules, reducing potassium levels, etc. to avpoid future ones. Lori On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:54 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When UTI is present, reduce or eliminate your sugars which serve to feed > the bacteria. > Best Wishes > > In a message dated 9/2/2008 2:36:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi folks, > > IGNORE that home remedy I found online & shared with y'all. [*below*] > Sorry. > > I was telling my husband about it last night and he said "Backing SODA???" > I said... "Yes." He said "Backing Soda is ALKALINE!!!!" Just the complete > opposite of what would be needed or trying to achieve! It's pretty much the > exaxt same thing as Alka-Seltzer [just withou th the fizz]. Ya know ... > "Alka" Seltzer. Alkaline. GEEZ. We need the opposite -- aciditic > properties. > > Once again, that goes to show you that "a supposed expert" (some urologist > in THAT article -- Kristene E. Whitmore, M.D., chief of urology and director > of the Incontinence Center at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia) does not > know too much or is completely incompetent as a doctor. Or failed human > physiology or biology 101. Perhaps I can find her online and she has an > e-mail address. > > I guess that for those of us who do not know much about the properties of a > particular supplement or home remedy, etc. -- we have to be very, very > careful of what is written down. And even if it is backed up by a supposed > expert -- don't believe everything you read! > > Lori > --------------------- > > ANTIBACTERIAL STRATEGIES : > > If a urine culture indicates that you have a UTI, your doctor will probably > prescribe antibiotics. In addition to taking the medication, here's what you > can do to relieve symptoms and prevent future recurrences. > > Fix yourself a baking soda cocktail. "At the first sign of symptoms, mix > half a teaspoon of baking soda in an eight-ounce glass of water and drink > it," says Kristene E. Whitmore, M.D., chief of urology and director of the > Incontinence Center at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia. The baking soda > raises the pH (acid-base balance) of irritating, acidic urine. This raises > the PH in your urinary tract so the bacteria can't survive. > > OR 1) A mixture of 1/2 tsp baking soda in eight ounce glass of water can be > very helpful as a UTI preventative or during the first signs of urinary > tract infection. The presence of baking soda in your system raises the > acid-base balance of the acidic urine. Or 1 teaspoon into a liter of water. > > IF you have a diagnosed, symptomatic UTI -- take the antibiotics that are > necessary to treat the family of bacteria that is present. > > > > > ------------------------------ > It's only a deal if it's where *you* want to go. Find your travel deal * > here* <http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047>. > -- Lori C4/5 complete quad, 27 years post Tucson, AZ
