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Recommended Treatment for an Acute Urinary Tract Infection?
Question
What is your recommended treatment for an acute urinary tract infection, burning on micturition, urgency, frequency and feverish? Up all night getting up almost hourly. I know that Dr. Jonathan Wright has recommended using d-mannose, which I have been taking, 2 grams every two hours while awake.
Answer
Different anti-infective agents and immune products work in different individuals and on different infections.
Dr. Wright’ s D-Mannose protocol often works with E. coli UTI infections at the rate of about 1/2 teaspoon in 4 to 6 ounces of water every 1 to 2 waking hours. You can always add some strong anti-pathogen product such as Oregacillin or OregaResp from North American Herb and Spice at one per meal, or Meso Silver brand of true colloidal silver at a minimum of 1/2 ounce 4x/day or BioCidin drops at 10 drops 3x/day.
In addition you could also add an anti-infective immune stimulant herb such as Echinacea tincture from either Herb Pharm or Herbalist and Alchemist at 1 teaspoon 3 or 4x/day or else Andrographis tincture from Herbalist and Alchemist at the recommended dose on their label.
Just as a physician might not pick the right antibiotic the first time, natural products also do not always work, but I find that they work as often or more often than the Rx antibiotics if the right brands at the proper doses are used.
— David Getoff, CCN, CTN, FAAIM