Women who drank an additional 1.5 liters of water daily experienced 48 percent fewer repeat bladder infections than those who drank their usual volume of fluids, according to a new study. “That’s a significant difference,” said senior author Dr. Yair Lotan, Chief of Urologic Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and professor with the Simmons… Continue reading Drinking More Water Reduces Bladder Infections in Women
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UTI Probably Caused by Bacterial Infection, Even When Tests Are Negative
The majority of women suffering with pain when urinating, or needing to urinate often or urgently probably do have a bacterial infection, even when nothing is detected by standard urine testing. That is the finding of a study done at the University of Ghent in Belgium and published in April 2017 in Clinical Microbiology and… Continue reading UTI Probably Caused by Bacterial Infection, Even When Tests Are Negative