The Allopathic Approach to UTIs and Cystitis

Most people reading this site are likely to be doing so because standard allopathic treatment has failed to clear up their cystitis problems. This is not an attack on the medical profession in general, but it is an attack on a lazy approach to trying to solve a problem that can only be solved by thinking 'outside the box'.

Some doctors have been conditioned into thinking like this:

1. Treat an infection with antibiotics. Use the cheapest one first according to good clinical practice and cost:benefit analytics. If that doesn't work, change the antibiotic. Keep doing that same thing.

2. If treatment repeatedly fails, it might be time for a thorough investigation of the bacteria involved, and a sensitivity test to determine which antibiotics will work best.

And then, what might the doctor think then? Perhaps....Oops, maybe I should have done that sooner. Pity I used that broad-spectrum antibiotic before I knew it wouldn't work on that bacterium... Now the bacteria have built up a lot of resistance. It's going to be very hard to get rid of. I wonder if there's another approach? Oh well, I'll just give her a bigger dose of antibiotics and see if that works.

You might want to read John Bremner's blog on the subject of how to create a lifelong urology patient.

So what's the alternative to the allopathic approach?

Well, for one thing, it's not cranberry - that makes most urinary tract problems worse. Believe me, if I thought it would help, I'd be telling you to take it, and possibly selling you the very best cranberry supplement in the world. But it's not going to help you - it's going to exasperate the situation. And this is coming from someone who got Tesco to open in the middle of the night (before they did that anyway - I was resourceful) to get cranberry because I thought it would help my partner...

The most damning evidence that cranberry makes things worse comes from personal reportage of thousands of people over the past four years. Only one individual claimed that that cranberry was proving useful. Of those that reported having used cranberry, the most common report was the infection got worse with increasing amounts of cranberry until the only remaining option was to take antibiotics.

And that's the course of things. That's the way it always happens. But this is not just good experience taking. There is a lot of solid proof that it would appear the people who produce cranberry would rather you didn't see. So take a look at this page called E.coli loves cranberry.

The other way to bladder health

After many years of trying to find a solution to repeat infections, (Anna had suffered from cystitis for 30 years), the only one we have found that has proved to work long term to sort out most cystitis and UTI problems is mannose taken at the correct treatment levels. When you take a warm drink with a spoonful of d-mannose in it, (you'll hardly taste the mannose) most of it gets into your urine within an hour, and attaches to the fimbria or pili of the bacteria that cause most urinary tract problems. This stops the bacteria from sticking to you, and they get flushed away naturally when you urinate. With the correct alpha:beta ratio, huge experience with thousands of individuals has shown us that Waterfall D-Mannose™ rarely fails to do the job, and it can also be taken either as a prophylactic at one or two level teaspoonfuls a day or immediately at the first sign of trouble, to maintain bladder health.

Waterfall D-Mannose is a very pure grade product, with the mannose extracted from sweet forest timbers in a patented process that produces a product with an alpha:beta ratio that works exceptionally well. Waterfall D-Mannose works to ease cystitis symptoms in five complementary ways:

1. It is a natural anti-inflammatory, quickly reducing inflammation in both bacterial and interstitial cystitis.
2. It coats the mannose receptors in the cell walls of the bladder epithelium, preventing bacterial adhesion. It can't fail to do this, providing it gets into the urine, because that's what mannose receptors are for.
3. By filling the fimbrial lectins - the molecular hooks the bacteria use to attach to you and to each other - it appears to stop bacterial colony formation and prevent them hooking onto the mannose receptors of exposed tissue cells, so that they can't attach.
4. It appears to tease out embedded bacteria and shell fragments by bio-molecular attraction. This is an ongoing and very helpful process because there may be deeply embedded bacteria from old infections.
5. It should assist with tissue regeneration. Mannose is involved in the activation of macrophages, which help to clean up the debris that can cause inflammation, and the presence of mannose stimulates fibroblasts to make more collagen and proteoglycans, which means that pain is lessened, healing is speeded up, and the bladder and urinary tract returns to health much faster than it would do in the absence of mannose. Research this
6. Massive user feedback indicates that Waterfall D-Mannose, unlike herbal remedies or antibiotics, will reliably stop and prevent most urinary tract infections and infection or non-specific urethral and bladder inflammation. It can be demonstrated that the glyconutrient also protects catheterised/catheterized and self-catheterising/catheterizing patients from the associated infections that despite prophylactic antibiotics, are otherwise unavoidable. For most people with simple antibiotic resistant infections or painful bladder symptoms without deformation or tumour, therefore, mannose would seem to be a sensible option, and should be considered the first line of defence, especially in the case of antibiotic failure and representation or worsening of the original symptoms.

You can learn more and if you think it will be useful for you, order Waterfall D-Mannose, at the very informative Sweet Cures of York website here.