How to Quickly Treat Urinary Tract Infections

I am one that suffers from chronic urinary tract infections. Here are some ways I treat, prevent and relieve the symptoms.

Instructions

• 1

  Recognize the symptoms. Painful urination, cloudy urine, urge to urinate, burning/stinging sensation while urinating, blood in urine. For me, the first sign of infection is cloudy urination, urge to urinate after just urinating, and burning sensation.

• 2

  At first sign, drink plenty of fluid. I usually try to drink a 16 oz bottle water at the first signs of urinating. Usually water will relieve the burning and urge to go once it gets through your system.

• 3

  Drink cranberry juice. It's hard for me to find pure cranberry juice and I hear it's not pleasant to drink anyways. I usually go for the cranberry juice cocktail (contains 27% juice). While I sip on that, I also drink water to help dilute the sugars. An alternative to drinking the juice is to take a cranberry supplement. It's like juice in capsule form.

• 4

  Take 1 capsule of Enchinacea. Some studies have shown this to be antibacterial and antifungal. I find that it helps in flushing out the bacterial.

• 5

  Take some vitamin C. Vitamin C can help raise the acidity level in your urine which will make it harder for bacteria to reproduce.