Suggest Treatment For Recurrent UTI

Posted on Sat, 14 Feb 2015

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Question : Doctor my mother who is 64 years old . suffers from urine infections . that keep coming back . She has had antibiotics for some of them but I just wanted to know if there is a reason for her getting it so often. she drinks her cranberry juice regularly . Thank you .

Answered by Dr. Manisha Jain (34 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
precautions advised

Detailed Answer:
Hello mam, thanks for trusting health care magic.
In my opinion she needs to be examined by a gynecologist for prolapse of anterior vaginal wall or thinning of the mucosa.
In case everything is normal then all she needs is -
- keep drinking 2 or more litres of water a day
- keep taking cranberry juice
- drink syrup renalka or alkasip twice a day for 5 days and then tablet vitamin C twice a day for 5 days ( keep doing this for a month at least)
- keep perineal hygiene
- use vWash after taking bath to clean perineal area which helps in maintaining right pH there.
I hope these measures will help her.
Also get her blood sugar levels checked.
All the best.

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