Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Treating Bladder Infections

By Jennifer King

Do you realize that nearly 10 million people visited the doctor last year for urinary tract infection cures? Most of these sufferers did this to relieve the agonizing symptoms associated with urinary tract infections which include: frequent urination; need to urinate but to no avail; aches above the pelvis; clouded urine; blood in urine; fatigue; vomiting; fever; and chills and night sweats. The ailments of urinary tract infections will make your life unpleasant and a bladder infection treatment should be contemplated as soon as possible!

If your urinary tract infection is left untreated, the symptoms will become decidedly worse, and you can risk greater complications to your body including extreme kidney problems. But what will you choose for your treatment? Antibiotics or treating the urinary tract infection naturally?

It's a sad thing, of those 10 million doctor visits, almost everyone prescribed antibiotics to treat their urinary tract infection. A high percentage of the UTI sufferers will take the antibiotics and be fine while other UTI sufferers will get prescribed the same antibiotics and nothing will happen except more pain. What's more alarming is, most UTI sufferers who use the antibiotics don't have a clue about what urinary tract infection antibiotics are doing to their systems.

Anti Bacterial Drugs Explained

Antibiotics have their uses in the field of medicine, and have achieved some good in a good number of cases. In saying that, anti bacterial drugs are being prescribed at a greater rate than they have before, and may be causing more harm than good. If you or a love one suffers from a urinary tract infection please pay close attention! The word 'antibiotic' literally translates as 'anti-life.' Why do you suppose this is?

Antibiotics (especially urinary tract infection antibiotics) are drugs, and their purpose is to wipe out bacteria (E-coli). You might think this is great but regrettably urinary tract infection antibiotics can NOT distinguish the difference from 'good bacteria' and 'bad bacteria'. In a faultless world, the antibiotics would only wipe out the E-coli and vicious germs that cause UTI's in the bladder. However this is not what happens, UTI antibiotics will most of the time wipe out the good bacteria as well as the bad bacteria. And not all bacteria bad!

Anti Bacterial Drug's Effect on The Body

For instance, urinary tract infection antibiotics will also wipe out your friendly bacteria which aids in the digestion of food, and the immune system bacteria which help build a strong and healthy immunity. With the over use of antibiotics, digestion complications will arise as well as a breakdown of the immune system. Also, as you become increasingly dependent upon antibiotics, the infection causing bacteria in your body becomes increasingly resistant of antibiotics. The result is doctors prescribing harsher antibiotics to wipe out the resistant infection causing bacteria (and more of the beneficial bacteria). Are you skeptical? A 2003 medical report stated that 42% of E. coli was un-effected by one or more of the 12 antibiotics that were tested in the study.

An Immune System Boosting Option

You do not have to treat your urinary tract infection with antibiotics. The truth is, one of the safest methods of treating a urinary tract infection is by allowing your body to cure the bladder infection itself. By giving the proper means, the body can absolutely cure itself in less than a day naturally (no harmful anti bacterial drugs). Treating UTI is as simple as preventing bacteria from residing in the bladder by simply maintaining high acidic levels while flushing your system with the proper fluids. - 15255

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