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By admin, May 24, 2006 11:45 am

Finally a natural way to eliminate bladder infections naturally!

Bladder Infections. Just about every woman has had to deal with this problem at some time or another. You get that sense of having to urinate all the time but there is no urine. Then the burning starts. If it gets bad enough and gets to the kidneys, the pain can be very intense. When I used to feel one coming I would always run to the store to get cranberry juice and hope for it to go away. But recently I learned about a much more effective, natural way to handle bladder infections, in addition to cranberry juice that I suggest you try.

You really need to understand how most bladder infections start and what happens at the cellular level to appreciate this. Bladder infections are typically caused by bacteria in the urinary tract that belongs in the digestive tract but ends up entering the urethra. These bacteria, call E.coli are normally washed away by urine but if you don’t urinate immediately after having sex or if you wipe from back to front instead of front to back, some of these bacteria can flow up your urethra and end up growing in your bladder and causing an infection.

E. coli, like all bacteria, cells, and viruses, are covered with tiny ‘finger-like’ projections that are composed of various carbohydrate (sugar), fat (lipid) and amino acid (protein) molecules. These projections, called Glycoproteins, are communication structures that enable communication between other cells, viruses, and bacteria. For E. coli, the glycoprotein structures are called lectins. Lectins allow the bacteria to stick to the inside walls of the urinary tract.

So, the goal is to find something that will stick to the E. coli and detach them from the urinary tract walls. Enter D-Mannose. This is a plant substance called a monosaccharide is made from birch/beech wood and fruits like  cranberry that sticks to the E. coli lectins better than the lectins stick to human cells. Research* shows ingesting D-Mannose makes it so that the bacteria can no longer stick to urinary tract walls.

You can purchase D-mannose as a powder and mix it with any liquid. It is recommended that you take it every three to four hours while you are awake until the symptoms are totally gone.
The effects of D-mannose are usually felt within 24 hours. If that isn’t happening, you should contact a physician. It may be that the infection is caused by a bacterium other than E. coli.

Now, before you go out and purchase another new product, I want to let you know that you should find a glyconutrient blend, instead of just taking D-mannose. There are eight monosaccharides present in glycoproteins and taking a product that can give you access to all of them is a better use of your money than buying just one of them. You can learn more about this in my DVD, The Amazing Healing Power of Plants, available from www.The8KeystoWellness.com

*Gouin SG, Wellens A, Bouckaert J, Kovensky J., Synthetic Multimeric Heptyl Mannosides as Potent Antiadhesives of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. ChemMed Apr 2, 2009.

About the Author

Carol Merlo, B.S., M.Ed., Speaker and Author has degrees in both Educational and Health Psychology, and has studied personality psychology for over 30 years and has been a professional network marketer since 1994.

Mannatech – Don and Wendy Kremer