Antibiotics beat cranberries to prevent UTIs: study

[Hot Mega]

Antibiotics for prevention?? Is this another example of lazy journalism? Thought antibiotics were administered to treat infections...not prevent:dunno: (I wonder what kind of media conspiracy this falls under...)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Antibiotics were better than cranberry capsules at preventing urinary tract infections in a new study of women in the Netherlands who suffered from recurring infections.

Women taking the drugs had fewer UTIs over the next year than those taking cranberry capsules, but they also built up resistance to the antibiotics - meaning that their bodies might not respond to the drugs if they needed them to treat another infection.

When it comes to antibiotics for UTIs, "there's a really important need here to look for alternatives and to reconsider both what we've done in terms of treatment and prophylaxis," said Betsy Foxman, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor who didn't participate in the new research.

Cranberries have long been thought to help prevent UTIs through "anecdotal evidence," she told Reuters Health, but doctors aren't sure how they might work, and more rigorous studies have shown mixed results on their effectiveness.

Link....
http://news.yahoo.com/antibiotics-beat-cranberries-prevent-utis-study-210012408.html

 

[squallumz]

that just means the pharmaceutical companies want that chunk of the pie back.

god forbid we use natural cures.

 

[Mr_Balls]

We should make some antibiotics by refining plants

 

[Will E Worm]

Antibiotics for prevention?? Is this another example of lazy journalism?

Lazy and dangerous. Cranberries have been around much longer and using too many drugs will lead to superbugs and viruses.

that just means the pharmaceutical companies want that chunk of the pie back.

god forbid we use natural cures.

Yes. They want money and that is all this is about.

Shame on them. :nono:

 

[emceeemcee]

almost as bad as 8 year old kids being given statin drugs

 

[Hypergalaxy]

Antibiotics cause long term damage if taken to frequently because your body becomes use to the type of antibiotic and they do no work as throughly. That and they also tear down the good bateria in your body. Sounds like pharmaceutical companies want even more money.

 

[squallumz]

well, imagine the amount of people who do the cranberry juice thing?

tons of people know this remedy, i mean, everyone i know does it.

thats a lot of people they could be making money off of that they arent. so, now they decide, lets try to scare em into buying drugs.

its terrible.

 

[Hot Mega]

Lazy and dangerous. Cranberries have been around much longer and using too many drugs will lead to superbugs and viruses.

Dovetailing onto ^^ I don't know if either is effective for per se prevention. For prevention I would say maybe the cranberries would work better based on what benefit they allegedly provide you with.

As I understand it there is 'something' in cranberry juice which causes bacteria to not be able to adhere themselves to bladder and other areas of the urinary tract.

 

[Kingfisher]

Yeah, but you can't keep taking antibiotics, or you become immune to them. How about holistic methods and toughing it out instead of giving the drug companies more and more money.

 

[Hot Mega]

Yeah, but you can't keep taking antibiotics, or you become immune to them.

Technically we don't become immune...the bacteria the prescribed antibiotic treats becomes immune...

But I know what you meant.:o

 

[LukeEl]

Just eat some moldy cheese for your penicilin intake.