From someone who used to live on Macrodantin - the cathing thing was the way to go for me. Haven't had one UTI in 3 years since the nurse at the urologist (sp?) told me to do it.
Margie in Naperville, IL
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:22:02 -0600, ROBERT COOK wrote
> HE MIGHT TRY
VITAMIN C, ORANGE JUICE AND CRANBERRY JUICE. IT BUILDS UP THE ACID LEVEL
IN THE URINE AND HELPS PREVENT THE BACTERIA FROM COLONIZING AND SETTLING IN TO
CREATE AN INFECTION. ANYTHING TO MAKE IT MORE ACIDIC, NOT
ALKALINE.
>
> ALSO, THREE TIMES A DAY INTERMITTENT CATHING MAY NOT BE FREQUENT
ENOUGH. IT ALLOWS THE URINE TO STAY IN THE BLADDER LONGER THAN IT SHOULD
NORMALLY AND THAT ALSO ALLOWS THE BACTERIA TO GROW. I SEEM TO RECALL EVERY
FOUR HOURS IS
RECOMMENDED.
>
> BOB FROM HOUSTON-SPRING,
TX
> T-1 PARA, CLASS OF
1994
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Poonam Mahadev Thapa
> To: TM List;Alton
Ryder
> Sent: 2/3/2006 2:54:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [TMIC] stiffness and regression? bladder
infections,
UTI's
>
>
> Hi
> He has been taking antibiotics. But the infection just
comes back. He is on clean intermittent catheterization, three times a day. It
is a procedure involving sterilised catheter, usedwith gloves, betadine and
dettol cleansing. Still the bacteria find their way in somehow. He drinks a lot
of water too but the big queston is should he have something to make his urine
acidic or alkaline? Any idiea about that?
>
> wish you a bacteria free
days.
> Nima
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alton Ryder
> To: Poonam Mahadev Thapa
> Cc: TM List
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 4:52
AM
> Subject: Re: [TMIC] stiffness and regression? bladder
infections,
UTI's
>
> > ... urine
infection with fever and E. Coli stuck on to his bladder bringing in recurrent
infection
>
> Zap that with
antibiotics as soon as possible. Until it is cured he cannot progress very
far.
>
> I have a relatively harmless resident colony of pseudonomas. My colony
is resistent to antibiotics. Puts a bright blue-green coating where ever it
lives. It starts growing on the inside of a new hose and can be seen after about
ten days. By that time the rubber hose is starting to get a dull brown, so the
combination is a dull olive-green. Yuck! After two weeks, when I change my
Foley catheter, I see a pale [pleasant] color on the outside of the tip of the
Foley, so I infer that the bladder wall is no
worse.
>
> To keep the colony under control [Pseudonomas can be fatal.], I
practice the
following:
>
> Drink every day at least six to eight ounces of 27%
cranberry juice,e.g., Northland 100%
juice.
>
> And, to flush out the bladder
continuously,
>
> Drink LOTS of water/milk/juice. I drink over two liters of
water, spaced roughly equally over the 24
hours.
>
>
> > ... That
made him very weak in the legs
>
> My legs become wimpy every time
I have a non-local infection, whether UTI or upper respiratory or even repeated
nights of too little sleep. Then, when I stand, I wilt like a candle near a hot
stove.
>
> > ... a relapse of TM.
Is that
possible?
>
> Possible, but very unlikely
unless MS is the underlying
disease.
>
> > ... side effects?
Are they compatible with ...
Tizanidine
>
> I've been doing all this for
years. I also take 16 oral medications daily, including a small amount of
tizanidine (=Zanaflex,)
PRN.
>
> Welcome aboard,
Nima
>
> Alton, transverse mylopathy in
1997
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