Fighting Urinary Tract Infection
About two years ago I read about a product offered from Progressive Labs that was designed to fight Urinary Tract Infections. My partner and I decided to give it a whirl since one of our clients was paralyzed from the waste down and had suffered many urinary tract infections due to constant catheterization.
We received a product from Progressive Labs called D-Mannose. D-Mannose is a naturally occurring simple sugar, closely related (in chemical terms to a stereo isomer) to glucose. Within 2 days of use our client’s infection was gone. I was happy to see him recover in such a short time without the use of antibiotics.
D-Mannose is absorbed by our bodies in small amounts through foods or drinks and is excreted promptly into the urine. A popular source of D-Mannose is cranberry juice. This juice has small amounts of D-Mannose and has been recommended by Urologist for decades to help fight urinary tract infections. Cranberry juice, however, simply does not have enough D-Mannose to deliver the knockout punch needed to fight the infection.
Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria in the urinary tract cause 90% of all urinary tract infection in the US. This is not the destructive form of E. coli talked about on the news but rather a natural occurring form in the body. This form of E. coli is supposed to remain in the intestines to provide natural flora. Most tract infections are treated with antibiotics. As we all know antibiotics not only kill the bad bacteria but the good as well. This can leave the body’s natural defenses at a disadvantage. Enter our simple sugar D-Mannose to mop up and remove our invading E. coli bacteria. D-Mannose does not actually kill the E coli but rather creates a situation where the E. coli bacteria can’t stick to the walls of the urinary tract allowing for removal when urination occurs. Since E. coli bacteria have the ability to stick to the tract walls by way of tiny fingerlike projections D-mannose literally sticks to the E. coli and actually out sticks the E. coli causing it to lose its grip on the tract wall.
The E. coli fingerlike projections which are an amino-acid/sugar complex, a “glycoprotein” also called “lectin” has the ability to stick to the walls of the tract lining and work their way up and sometime even reaching the kidneys. Fortunately for us the D-Mannose lectins stick to E. coli lectins better than E. coli lectins stick to us. Again this allows us to wash out the invading bacteria when we use significant quantities of D-Mannose.
Antibiotics verses D-Mannose. For those who have had chronic urinary infections, the over use of antibiotics can lead to a disruption in micro flora in the body. For women this might mean yeast infections that occur often. For both male and female this may lead to a systemic (all over the body) infection of candida (yeast) in every part of the body. Causing coating of the tongue, cravings for sugar (which feed yeast), white deposits in the corners of the mouth, fatigue, dizziness and headache. Problems with bowel behavior will also be affected when micro flora ratios are disturbed. This can lead to overgrowth of candida and other forms of harmful bacteria found in the intestinal tract. Antibiotics have been reported in recent years to be the cause of new resistant strains of bacteria that have the ability to go untouched by antibiotics. This may lead your doctor to prescribe a more powerful form of antibiotics to combat the infection perpetuating the problem further.
D-Mannose on the other hand is a naturally occurring sugar that has no known harmful effects on the body. It simply removes E. coli’s hold so it can be washed out with urination. D-mannose also leaves the good and bad bacteria alive. D-Mannose is absorbed in the upper gastrointestinal tract and does not relocate the friendly E. coli found in the colon. Treatment of urinary tract infection with D-Mannose is a sound and safe way to treat these infections. The small amounts of D-Mannose absorbed by our bodies are harmless. D-Mannose even tastes good so treatment for children is made easier.
Over the last two years I have sold D-Mannose to a number of clients and in each case I have seen chronic infections cleared up in 1-2 days. I am happy to report not one of these clients have complained about any side affects or problems in taking D-Mannose. Some of these clients take D-Mannose on a regular basis due to paralysis and constant catheterization.
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Segments of this article were taken and adapted from Dr. Jonathan Wright’s Nutrition & Healing Newsletter ©2001
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