9 Excellent Home Remedies For Bladder Infection

Bladder infections are no fun to have. The symptoms of a bladder infection coming on are blood in the urine or cloudy urine, the frequent call to go to the bathroom to urinate, burning with urination, and sometimes pain in the area of the bladder.

The minute you suspect you have one, grab your natural home remedies for bladder infection and get busy. There’s work to be done. Your home remedies should never be based on the idea that one thing is going to work. Use an overall shotgun approach if you want to be successful each and every time.

The reason why this works is because you may have four factors contributing to why you keep getting bladder infections. It’s possible that your habits are not up to par in the bedroom, bathroom, or laundry room – and these are the ones that need to be addressed, too.

Here’s my list of top guidelines for what to do. Evaluate each one carefully to see if your own particular situation could benefit from the action.

1. Do you urinate after having sex? If you do, then the urine cleans out the urinary tract and any lingering bacteria can’t set up shop. To make sure that this occurs, you’ll want to drink water before intercourse. Don’t be skimpy on it; you’ll lose fluids during intercourse.

2. Do you drink enough water? Are you in the habit of drinking water before intercourse and then afterwards? Do you drink enough water during the day? Water is the liquid that everything flows in, in your body. Don’t let your liquid go stagnant.

3. Take 2 capsules cranberry extract or cranberry tincture. The D-mannose in the cranberry binds to E. coli that causes the urinary tract infections. D-mannose is an epimer of glucose. In one Croatian study, scientists used D-mannose powder to see whether it would be good for preventing bladder infections.

They tested 98 patients to see the difference between using a medical drug called Nitrofurantoin and D-mannose, as compared with a placebo. Those who received the two treatments – medical or natural (D-mannose) had a lowered chance of developing a bladder infection compared with the placebo group. The D-mannose was just as effective as the Nitrofurantoin. The researchers believe that D-mannose could be effective in preventing bladder infections.

E.coli is the microbe that usually causes urinary tract infections. The E.coli that causes bladder infections is one that adheres to the cells in the urinary tract. It’s this adherence to the cells that D-mannose is preventing. The stronger the microbe adheres, generally the more virulent the strain and the more pathogenic it is. (The same thing is true for Klebsiella pneumoniae.)

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