Ladies: How d'you deal with UTI's?

Otherwise known as Urinary Tract Infections? I have developed one over the weekend and have so far managed to keep it at bay by taking nurofen and 2 litres of cranberry juice and sleeping quite a lot. But the infection is still there in spite of me taking in so many fluids. Just wondering if any of you have any remedies you use when this situation arises without resorting to antibiotics from the doctor?

PS if any men are still reading this, this is the disadvantiage of being a female pervert...!

Hey thanks for all those suggestions Primegen. Will check out some of that in the natural store tomorrow. I would prefer not to have to resort to the old antibiotics again unless totally necessary. It really makes me see what a brilliant breakthrough it was for medicine when antibiotics were discovered and synthesized. Like if there weren't available today, things as trvial as a UTI would be a much more serous and threatening condition. Maybe that's why there are more perverts around these days. Hmm.....

Um I go straight to the doctor and get antibiotics for UTI's only because if you leave it to go away naturally it can travel to your kidneys and you'll know when you start peeing blood. It can do some pretty bad damage. It happened to my sister about a year ago and she needed kidney ultrasounds etc.

It can be kinda serious. Cranberry juice is a good preventative it stops the bacteria sticking to the walls of the urethra, but yeah drink lots of water.

I rarely go get antibiotics for things, but UTI's I do. It clears it up within like a day or two and if you keep drinking cranberry juice every day just a glass or so you can pretty much stop it from coming back I guess it depends on how serious it is/ or painful.

Thanks for all those tips. I'm going to go on my lunch break to check out if they stock colloidal silver and/or Goldenseal root. There's a scam going on in these parts of the world that if a "natural" rememedy is proven to actually be effective, they withdraw it as an over-the-counter product so that people have to then go to their doctor to get a prescription to get it. Hope fully this is not the case with these items.

I would agree with both Primegen & Librachicky; I'd prefer not to have to take antibiotics if at all possible but if it starts getting worse I will indeed opt for the anitbiotics. I've had a few UTI's before and I was bleeding with one of them and it felt like my bladder was gonna fall out every time I went for a wee. So at that stage the infection is definietly too far in my opinion for herbal remedies to be able to combat it.

Yeah I totally disagree with this too. It really screams out to me that since the powers that be have realised that, yes, these herbal things actually work we're now gonna withdraw them from the market and you're gonna have to pay about 500% more for them! Just cos they have a beneficial value therefore they must have a monetary "value" on them. It sux.

So anyway I went to the nature shop and this really helpful shop assistant recommended uva ursi and cranberry capsules. If they don't do the trick then I might go for the colloidal silver stuff. Actually am avoiding taking the uva ursi stuff as these tinctures normally taste FOUL).