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Cystitis Treatment

Alternative Cure for Cystitis:

Everyone with a recurrent cystitis problem is looking for a natural way to treat and cure the problem, because eventually, and unfortunately, the medical solutions for cystitis seem to stop working. Often this can be because antibiotic-resistant bacteria are involved. But it can also be because no bacteria can be found and the doctor just runs out of options. You might hear the phrase, “You’re just going to have to learn to live with it…”

When you hear that it can be very upsetting. This type of frustration at the allopathic approach to cystitis treatment was why Sweet Cures started back in 2003. Anna, the joint founder of Sweet Cures was suffering from recurring cystitis which was going straight to her kidneys. She was also suffering severe side-effects from taking a floroquinolone-based antibiotic, with symptoms suggestive of fluorine poisoning, such as locked-up joints, long-bone pain, painful inelastic tendons, and fibromyalgia-type pain. So she started looking for a natural cure for cystitis, and found links between the way mannose is used to prevent bacterial adhesion in the lab, and the way bacteria adhere to us in the bladder and urinary tract. Since mannose, being a simple natural sugar, is entirely non-toxic, and is an essential constituent of every cell in the body, we ordered a kilo of the product to be delivered from the USA, which was the minimum quantity available then, and Anna rapidly recovered from her cystitis problems, and has never had a single episode since. Anna had found her cure for cystitis, and she wanted to share it with the world, so Anna and John gave up their jobs (Anna was a University Lecturer, and John was a Technical Author), and devoted their time to bringing this fantastic cystitis treatment to the world.

How D-Mannose Works:

When normally friendly symbiotic bacteria such as E.coli from the gut get into the urinary tract they rapidly change their character. Urine is a desperately challenging situation for the normal rod-shaped bacteria...

...so they develop fimbrial hairs with mannose receptors to attach to the mannose in our tissue cells. It’s a desperate struggle for survival, and they cling onto us and start releasing toxins to eat away at the lining of the bladder and allow them to deeply embed themselves attached to the mannose molecules of the cells in the bladder lining.

However, this simple and highly effective attachment mechanism can be used against the bacteria. All that is necessary is to introduce mannose molecules into the urine and any bacteria there will rapidly attach to the mannose molecules, filling their fimbrial receptors and making them unable to attach to tissue.

Symptoms of Cystitis:

About half of the world’s population never suffer the symptoms of cystitis. The other half have at least one episode during their lifetime, and of those about 20% have recurring cystitis. The symptoms are not easily ignored: low down abdominal cramping, painful urination, sometimes burning hot strong-smelling urine, and often painful stinging of the urethra during and after urination. Another symptom of cystitis is needing to urinate, but being almost completely unable to pass water. This can obviously be dangerous, especially if you have had recurrent cystitis episodes and multiple doses of antibiotics to which the bacteria have become resistant. Fluid build-up can mess up the body’s electrolytes, causing nausea and worse.

This is why it is important for anyone who regularly gets the symptoms of cystitis to keep some Waterfall D-Mannose in their medicine cabinet. Two to four tablets or a level to heaped teaspoonful of the powder should be taken with a drink at the very first twinge of pain.
If you suspect that you have symptoms of cystitis, but you are not sure, or your doctor can’t find any infection, a good way to find out is to test your urine using QuicklyTest UTItest 5V®  urine test strips, which have the five essential elements for spotting infection, and helping you to monitor progress. This will allow you to check for Leucocytes (white blood cells that flood to areas of infection); Blood (red blood which may be present in the urine but is invisible to the naked eye), which indicates inflammation; Nitrites (which are split by bacteria from the nitrates commonly present in urine) and generally indicate the presence of the bacteria that do the splitting job, and thus indicate a cystitis infection or urine infection; Protein (which may indicate that you are getting kidney infection symptoms – in which case best to quickly visit your doctor), and pH, which allows you to monitor the pH of your urine and thus slow the growth of any bacteria present by generally trying to keep your urine pH slightly on the alkaline side of neutral 7 so try to keep it at around 7.5 – 8, by controlling what you eat.

http://www.acidalkalinediet.com/alkaline-foods-chart.htm Avoid acidifying things like white flour, fizzy drinks, alcohol, red meat, and table sugar or sweets.

Recurring Cystitis:

Generally, recurring cystitis can be kept at bay by taking a maintenance dose of Waterfall D-Mannose. However, there are a few tips that can also help. The first, as previously mentioned, is to immediately take a double dose of the WDM as soon as you experience a twinge that says another infection may be on its way.

If you can get hold of an Aloe Vera plant, snip off a leaf about 10 - 12 inches long. Open the leaf and scrape out the gel. Blend with a pint of apple juice. This makes two drinks. Take one of these drinks 2-4 times a day.

Also, you can try taking 2 cloves of raw garlic, again with a little apple juice, 3 times a day. Or you might want to chop it and take it with some cider vinegar or as a last resort, on buttered toast.

If you have taken antibiotics, consider using our Special Probiotic Blend [link] to restore your gut bacteria and thus your immune system.

You can also help matters by alkalising your urine. If you can get magnesium citrate, sodium citrate, calcium citrate, or potassium citrate (a pharmacist should sell) you can take a teaspoonful of that a few times a day so long as you are able – (the pharmacist should advise how long you can take it for, and whether you can take it alongside any existing medication you are taking, whether for the treatment of cystitis symptoms or for any other reason.

Keep learning. Make sure you arm yourself with the tools and the knowledge that you need. You thus find your own particular cure for cystitis, and in the over 8 years of experience of Sweet Cures, the people who really take control of their own health are the ones with the best chance of getting completely better, and staying healthy, rather than having recurring cystitis and other health problems.

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