When someone presents with a urinary tract infection (UTI) antibiotics are usually given. What may happen in many cases is that the antibiotics will deplete the specific strains of friendly bacteria in the bladder. Since the friendly bacteria prevent infection, sometimes you may experience recurrent rounds of UTIs as infection is now allowed to proliferate as more and more friendly bacteria are wiped out.
Downside of Antibiotics for UTIs
If you continue to take antibiotics repeatedly you run the risk of depleting not only the friendly bacteria but the lining of the bladder where the friendly bacteria grow in the first place. If the process continues the recurrent infections can cause nerve inflammation in the wall of the bladder causing severe pain and inflammation known as interstitial cystitis.
How to Handle Recurring UTIs
What needs to be done is to regrow the specific strains of Probiotic cultures in both the bladder and the gut while at the same time healing the lining of the bladder to create a good substrate for the friendly bacteria to thrive in. If you are also suffering from nerve pain there are herbs you can take to heal the inflammation of the bladder. Also, you must eat an alkaline diet and make sure your bile is flowing in the gall bladder as it alkalinizes the digestive juices which then become alkaline blood and then subsequently alkaline urine, which will also prevent destruction of the delicate friendly bacteria growing there.
Try to avoid taking repeated doses of antibiotics for UTIs or if you already are, try to break the vicious cycle so you don’t wind up with interstitial cystitis.
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