I wanted to comment here, since I suffered most of my life with recurrent
bladder infections. When you listed all the stuff that your daughter is doing,
it brought back so many memories of all my own rituals to keep them at bay.
Now, on looking back, all were pretty innefectual, with exclusion of the
cranberry and CS, which I didn't use then. By the time I reached my 40s I had
developed something suprisingly similar to interstitial cystitis or basically
weeks a month of irritation that felt just like an infection, but lab tests
found no bacteria. It got to the point that I once had to visit the emergency
room for a catheter in order to empty my bladder. During that time I had
swithched to a vegetarian diet heavy in grains. I also read some disturbing
information that indicated that standard treatments for bladder infections
(various antibiotics, etc.) may be implicated in later development interstitial
cystitis development-but it may just be that chronic infections means something
is wrong that is just going to get worse with time.
What fixed it for me was eliminating wheat and other grains. I have not had one
bladder infection or irritation since. I was a celiac and didn't know it. I
recently read an article on interstitial cystitis, a very painful bladder
irritation conditon at http://www.mercola.com/2003/apr/9/bladder.htm (go to Dr.
Mercolas comments at the bottom) where Dr. Mercola commented that the
elimination of wheat helped the condition significantly.
Tish
