How could any bacteria cause a bladder infection without just getting flushed away literally certainly if you're not drinking enough or men who have prostate enlargement can't empty completely leaving behind a stagnant pool but in most people there should be a constant flow of water through there well bladder infection causing e.coli evolved these finger-like projections that they used to stick to the walls of the bladder so they don't get washed away almost 30 years ago now it was demonstrated that if you drip cranberry juice on e.coli they don't stick as well grape juice doesn't work nor does orange or apple juice or even white cranberry juice made from unripened berry so maybe it's one of the red phytonutrients that's doing it even if it works in a petri dish though I mean we don't pee cranberry juice I mean how do we know that the anti adherence phytonutrients in cranberries or even absorbed through the gut so they make it into the bladder well subsequent studies showed that if you drip urine of someone who drank cranberry juice on to e.coli you get the same anti stick effect ah well now we're getting somewhere here's the stickiness of strains of E coli waiting in urine from someone drinking water and here's their stickiness in the urine of someone drinking cranberry juice within hours of a consumption there's a drop in e.coli stickiness that appears to last throughout much of the day so Mike cranberries really help prevent bladder infections well the best way to prevent infection is to not get infected in the first place which may involve the avoidance of chicken is already discussed so you're not constantly reinfecting yourself but if that doesn't work if your gut remains stubbornly colonized with these bad bladder bugs various tested cranberry products appear to reduce the recurrence of bladder infections by about 35 percent not as effective as antibiotics but cranberries don't foster antibiotic resistance and have fewer side effects there's good evidence to suggest that cranberries are effective for prevention but not as an effective treatment right but that makes sense right cranberries prevent the initial adherence but that occurs at the start of the infection when the infection is present it's already stuck there then there's no clinical data to suggest that cranberries aren't effective in the treatment of urinary tract infections meaning cranberries don't work better than placebo but placebos work for example ibuprofen seems to work just as good as antibiotics for the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections now some people you really do need to treat with antibiotics pregnant women children men those with kidney infections systemic symptoms like nausea and vomiting but for most healthy women bladder infections just go away on their own without antibiotics so all the women who drink cranberry juice and have their symptoms disappear may falsely attribute their recovery to the Jews but when it comes to most UTIs nothing works nothing in fact actually works leading doctors to try to figure out how they can harness the placebo effect for themselves you

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