UTI in pregnancy

[Spy]

I have a friend who suffers from continuous and pretty much non-stop cystitis throughout pregnancy, taking multiple courses of antibiotics for it. Having realised (or half realised, anyway) that the antibiotics she has been taking all her life may have something to do with it, she is prepared to stop, if she knows what else to do when she suffers from the next bout of cystitis, and she obviously doesn't know what else to do, other than go to GP and get the next prescription.

I personally have zero experience with UTIs, like, never in pregnancy and never in my lifetime sort of thing, and although I can guess that they can be quite painful and hard to deal with, I really don't have a clue of where to start. Yes, stuffed flora wherever possible through years of abuse may well be the cause. Where do I send her to read up (baseline level stuff) for other ways of dealing with this? Would SA be relevant?

[Sarah]

Sorting out gut with probiotics is the starting point I would imagine. I have never suffered, but my sister has suffered from UTI's most of her life, and she finds drinking lots of cranberry juice as soon as she feels symptoms seems to stop it developing. Not sure how it works - but she swears by it.

[Spy]

According to the friend in question, cranberry doesn't work for her. She does take the probiotics, but I am not sure its as easy as she thinks it is - as in, take abx, then probx, then you're back to square one with no damage. The fact that this thing is recurring, IMO, shows that either probx don't quite sort things out to the right level, or she is doing something wrong with them. Are some probx better than others? Any specifics she needs to know about? I think she just takes whatever is prescribed/recommended and available.

[magical1]

I make a Heather Tincture that is great for UTIs. Have a look into if Heather is OK for pregnant women... I would guess not but it may be a really good thing for her to take daily when she isn't pregnant.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

I have a friend who suffers from continuous and pretty much non-stop cystitis throughout pregnancy, taking multiple courses of antibiotics for it. Having realised (or half realised, anyway) that the antibiotics she has been taking all her life may have something to do with it, she is prepared to stop, if she knows what else to do when she suffers from the next bout of cystitis, and she obviously doesn't know what else to do, other than go to GP and get the next prescription.

I personally have zero experience with UTIs, like, never in pregnancy and never in my lifetime sort of thing, and although I can guess that they can be quite painful and hard to deal with, I really don't have a clue of where to start. Yes, stuffed flora wherever possible through years of abuse may well be the cause. Where do I send her to read up (baseline level stuff) for other ways of dealing with this? Would SA be relevant?

Yup. But it also depends what is causing them. Are they E.coli UTI's?

If so, SA will knock them on the head very quickly.

Ironically, SA is what the spinal unit uses in paraplegics for UTIs, which they get chronically, because of bladder muscle issues. their dosages is 5 grams a day, and it works so well that you won't find any of the local paraplegics, dropping their SA.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

According to the friend in question, cranberry doesn't work for her. She does take the probiotics, but I am not sure its as easy as she thinks it is - as in, take abx, then probx, then you're back to square one with no damage. The fact that this thing is recurring, IMO, shows that either probx don't quite sort things out to the right level, or she is doing something wrong with them. Are some probx better than others? Any specifics she needs to know about? I think she just takes whatever is prescribed/recommended and available. I'd use a probiotic with the biggest range, and I'd be using yoghurt and kefir.

and vegetable juices. never Abs. But then, if I'd taken them, I'd be dead :giggle:

[Spy]

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Yup. But it also depends what is causing them. Are they E.coli UTI's?

If so, SA will knock them on the head very quickly.

Ironically, SA is what the spinal unit uses in paraplegics for UTIs, which they get chronically, because of bladder muscle issues. their dosages is 5 grams a day, and it works so well that you won't find any of the local paraplegics, dropping their SA.

Do they use it regularly or only in acute cases of UTIs?

We don't know what is causing them. Tests are never run, the closest antibiotic from the shelf prescribed and taken without a second thought. :eyeroll: And 'it helps', so we forget about the whole thing until next time. :alien:


I make a Heather Tincture that is great for UTIs. Have a look into if Heather is OK for pregnant women... I would guess not but it may be a really good thing for her to take daily when she isn't pregnant.

I'll have a look, thanks. Find it hard to believe that heather may not be OK for pregnant women but abx are. :alien:

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Paraplegics take SA every day.

your friend needs to know that napalming commensals isn't a smart move, either for her or the baby.

[magical1]

I'll have a look, thanks. Find it hard to believe that heather may not be OK for pregnant women but abx are.

I just said that to be on the cautious side. I have no idea but best to do your own research. I passed on a bottle to a girl the other day who works at the local deli... she said she had a UTI with sore kidneys as well. That afternoon my oldest boy went down there to get something and he came back with a post stick note on his head to me saying thank you for the potion it worked straight away.