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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says cranberry juice may be no more effective than a placebo against urinary tract infections.
Study author Betsy Foxman of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor says they expected a 30 percent recurrence rate in those in the placebo group.
They are probably using cranberry juice that contains added sugars. The only cranberry juice that helps is no sugar added - and it tastes AWFUL. And you have to down a lot of it. For days.
They are probably using cranberry juice that contains added sugars. The only cranberry juice that helps is no sugar added - and it tastes AWFUL. And you have to down a lot of it. For days.
That's not logical. Cranberry is cranberry, no matter what else is added to it. Cranberry has a unique acid that passes through the kidney in acid form, and that causes an acidic urinary tract, which combats infections. The acid is still there, even if there is also sugar in your stomach when it stars its merry way through your body.
If what you say were true, you could put sugar on poisonous toadstools and eat them safely.
my understanding on cranberry was the claim was that it helped PREVENT an infection, not treat an active infection. And, even there it can help. It is just not the acidity but a substance in the cranberry that helps prevent them from bacteria.
My mother is incontintent and highly subject to bladder infections despite ongoing good hygeine (as best we can given the circumstances..change every 2 hours). Once we started adding (per the doctor) one cranberry pill to her evening pills, she has not had an infection in over 6 months. This is not placebo because she does not even know what she takes in terms of medicine (stroke patient). Before that we were getting one every month or two.
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