on 11/2/05 9:28 AM, ROBERT COOK wrote: > YOU MENTION FLUSHING YOUR BLADDER. HOW DO YOU DO THAT
By drinking lots of water and other fluids. I drink 700 ml before I get out of bed, another before I sleep at night, another after dinner, and the fourth before lunch. The flow of this much water amounts to a washing of the bladder. There exists a Foley-like cath used to flush the bladder under sterile conditions. I don't do that. > I DO THE CRANBERRY, LOTS A WATER How much, Bob? --------------- I checked my medication notes and found five medications taken for UTI's. The earliest was Macrobid/nitrofurantoin, 100 mg, twice a day. Didn't bother to get a new Rx. [My notes do not directly record efficacy.] I had seven Rx's for Cipro/ciprofloxacin-oral, 500 mg, twice/day, the first in 99, three consecutive months in 01, twice in 02. It evidently worked. I used Cefaclor/cephalosporin, 250 mg, 3/day in 03. Hiprex in 03 to make UTI's less likely. That may have been an attempt to clear up the olive drab. [The hose looks unclean.] To get rid of the green I tried Levaquin/fluoroquinolone, 500 mg once/day, first in 1/02 and again [don't know why] a year later. It didn't work. If the pseudomonas ever gets less benign, I'm in trouble. I think the choice of antibiotic was always made by the doctor and reflected his preferences at the time. I hope this enumeration helps Blaine. Alton, the long-winded geezer who used to bore his kids to death
