10 Ways to Prevent Urinary Tract Infections or UTI
From Tracee Cornforth,Your Guide to Women's Health.
How to Reduce Your Risk of UTI
The majority of the millions of people diagnosed each year with urinary tract infections are women. Why women are more prone to urinary tract infections is unclear, despite the fact that one in five women develop at least one UTI in her lifetime. While UTI is not especially common in men, when an infection does develop, men are more likely to experience serious side effects from the infection. Urinary tract infections accounted for nearly 9 million visits to doctors in 1997, according to the Na! tional Center for Health Statistics. In fact, the only infection more common than UTI is respiratory tract infection. Is there anything that you can do to help reduce your risk of developing an urinary tract infection? Health care professionals suggest the following tips to help prevent UTI from occurring in women.
- Make sure you drink an adequate amount of plain water everyday to help flush out your urinary tract.
More: You Are What You Drink - When you feel the need to urinate, do so as soon as possible. Suppressing your need to urinate when you feel the urge may give any bacteria that may!
be
present a chance to develop into a full-fledged urinary tract infection.
- You've probably heard that you should wipe from front to back after a bowl movement. This is especially important to help prevent bacteria from the anus from entering the vagina or urethra.
- Taking showers instead of tub baths helps to prevent bacteria from entering the urethra and causing a UTI.
- Always wash your genital area both before and after sexual intercourse to help prevent bacteria from transfer to the urethra or vaginal area and creating a breeding ground that can cause an urinary tract infection.
More: Personal Hygiene and UTI - Feminine hygiene sprays and douches, particularly scented douches, can irritate the urethra and possibly!
begin a
case of UTI. So, be safe and learn to say No to feminine hygiene sprays and douches and you'll be helping yourself prevent not only urinary tract infections, but also other infections and irritations that these products may cause in your reproductive system.
More: The Douche Debate - Drinking cranberry juice is a fairly well known and natural way to both help prevent urinary tract infections, as well as help speed the recovery process when UTI develops. Just drinking two 4 ounce glasses of cranberry juice daily is often enough to both prevent UTI and speed recovery when an infection does develop.
More: UTI and Cranberry - Another nutritional route that may help prevent UTI is Vitamin C supplements taken on a regular basis. !
Vitamin C
increases the acidity level of urine which in turn helps decrease the number of harmful bacteria that may be present in your urinary tract system.
More: Quiz: Are You Getting Enough Vitamin C? - Always wear panties with a cotton crotch. White cotton panties are even better. Cotton fabric lets moisture escape while other fabrics can trap moisture, creating a potential breeding ground for bacteria.
- If you are one of a large number of women who suffers from frequent, recurrent urinary tract infections, a change in your position during sexual intercourse may help reduce the number of UTIs that you experience. Changing sexual positions may reduce friction on your urethra and reduce your risk of recurrent UTI. Women who suffer from extremely frequent urinary tract infections may be prescribed an antibiot!
ic to
take immediately after sex to help prevent the likelihood of urinary tract infection occurrence.
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