Attack of the UTIs
"The thing that kills women is recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs). Did you know that UTIs account for 7 million visits and hospitalizations annually and 25% of all infections in older people? In fact, apparently one third of the total Medicare expenditure is around UTIs. Not preventing UTIs is costing our healthcare system an enormous amount of money and resources."
Good job I don't have that problem :D - I'm not Ben Shapiro
Here I thought UTIs were just a way to get old people to drink Cranberry Juice.
There seems to be compelling evidence that cranberry juice can prevent recurrent urinary tract infections. However, this is based on a few smallish clinical trials. There seems to be no good evidence that cranberry juice can treat an acute UTI. The clinical trials are too small to be definitive and taken together, they couldn’t tell us whether it worked or not. Taken in total, the evidence is intriguing. It seems to indicate that it might work, and it certainly is safe, so eating a bunch of cranberry products is not going to cause harm. Even the jellied cranberries in the can.