Bladder Infection Home Remedies

Natural foods and herbs are the basis of bladder infection home remedies. Use the information on this page to help ease the pain of cystitis and prevent further attacks.

Bladder infections can be incredibly painful especially when it comes to emptying your bladder. And they often strike without warning at the worst possible times – late at night or on the holidays when it’s difficult to obtain treatment for “minor” ailments.

But if you’ve ever been left crying tears of pain after using the toilet you’ll know that a bladder infection causes pain that is anything but “minor”.

These suggestions will only help at the very onset of symptoms of a urinary tract infection. Once a bladder infection is in full swing you really do need to get help from your doctor. Once the infection is dealt with, you can take steps to prevent further infections. If urinary tract and bladder infections are left untreated for too long there is a serious risk of complications involving the kidneys.

So with that said, let’s look at some safe and gentle options for dealing with your bladder infections.

Bladder Infection Home Remedies – Cranberry

Cranberry is perhaps the best known remedy. Cranberries stop E. coli, the most common bacterial cause of bladder infections, from attaching to the bladder wall.

Drinking cranberry juice or taking cranberry tablets and drinking plenty of water will allow many of these bacteria to be flushed out of your system quickly, giving your immune system chance to clear up any remaining bacteria.

Cranberry juice is readily available at most large supermarkets. Try to get the unsweetened variety if possible – bacteria feast on sugar so don’t give them any!

Some people don’t enjoy the taste of unsweetened cranberry juice and prefer to take cranberry in pill form. Cranberry tablets are available from health food stores or from on line retailers.

And of course you do have the option of planting a cranberry bush in your garden and enjoying a fresh supply of cranberries to add to your diet.

Incorporating cranberry juice or tablets into your daily routine works well as a preventative measure. As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure!

Bladder Infection Home Remedies Suggestions

Bladder Infection Home Remedies – Diet

Remove acidic foods from your diet if you have a bladder infection.

Foods such as chicken, peanuts, fish, organ meats and bread will cause an excessive amount of uric acid to form in the blood, making your infection difficult to treat.

Choose non acid forming foods like almonds, carrots, celery, apples, peaches, lettuce, oatmeal and grapes.

Avoid drinking non herbal teas, coffee and alcohol. You should drink plenty of water.

Bladder Infection Home Remedies – Coriander Tea

Corianader tea soothes the burning pain of a bladder infection. It is made with the seeds of the coranader plant not the leaves. Coriander tea really works, I highly recommend it. This short video shows you how to make it.

 

D-mannose

D-mannose is a natural sugar that has lectins that bind with the bacteria, enabling you to flush them out of your system. It is MANY TIMES STRONGER than cranberry but has the SAME ACTION. It’s a mildly sweet tasting white powder that you can mix in with other things if you want to. Most health food stores carry it or you can get some here
D-mannose has also proven immensely helpful in treating interstitial cystitis.

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