Weird Things You Know How To Do If You Get Urinary Tract Infections

Stupidly Deciding Once Or Twice To Let The UTI Resolve Itself

Some women decide once or twice to let their UTI heal on its own. But by the third time, most women realize that UTIs usually do not heal on their own and that the pain they have to endure is not worth the attempt to self-heal. Many women have heard stories of people with UTIs who held off on taking antibiotics and spontaneously self-healed whereas women who took antibiotics healed faster but had to live with the fact that they are contributing to antibacterial resistance, the phenomena of bacteria becoming stronger and more resistant to the prescribedmedicine. Most women do not want to contribute to antibiotic resistance but have no choice. The pain of a UTI is too severe. This is why many women allow their doctors to prescribe antibiotics for their UTI.

Making The Mistake Of Downing The Wrong Kind Of Cranberry Juice

Many women with UTIs have had the experience of downing cartons upon cartons of the wrong kind of cranberry juice. At the first sign of a UTI, they reach for a carton of juice with cranberries on it only to realize that the juice contains no real cranberries at all. These juices did not help these women fight their UTIs, so they now vigilantly read juice labels for the ingredient 'cranberries.' It is important to drink juice that contains actual cranberries because this fruit contains flavonol, a substance that helps treat UTIs by killing off and preventing bad bacteria in the urinary tract from spreading. Women with UTIs are advised to buy one hundred percent real cranberry juice or real cranberry juice that is diluted with water.