There’s a name for that. A seabreeze?
I love cranberry cocktail, but I rarely drink it. Hm. Sounds pretty good about now, though.
Hey, Ivylass, you can get the same benefits as cranberry juice from cranberry pills/tablets. IMHO, the powdered cranberry extract in gels works better than the pressed tablets, but YMMV. Just make sure you drink lots of water along with. And you don’t have to taste the cranberry. Plus, it has the added benefit of not having any sugar (if you’re drinking the juice, unless it’s PURE juice with NO SUGAR (read the label), it has sugar and that’s NOT good for a UTI).
mle, who has used cranberry extract/water to stave off recurring bladder infections for 6 years.
I like cranberry juice (the cocktail. with sugar. no other juices mixed with in the bottle, like cranrasp or cranapple. Just cran). But to fight a UTI I always use the extract and I cut down on all simple sugars I’m eating drinking.
Hmmm. Cranberry and Grapefruit!
Florida’s Natural makes a not-from-concentrate Ruby Red Grapefruit and Cranberry drink. (Although, oddly enough, I don’t see it on their website.)
I would guzzle that until I was floating if I was given the chance, never mind it’s nice to slurp when I suspect a UTI is trying to enter the picture.
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Rysdad, my bartender calls cranberry-and-vodka a Cape Codder.
What mlerose said. I get rid of UTIs a lot faster now that I toss cranberry pills down my gullet instead of choking down the straight unsweetened juice. But I like ordinary cranberry juice and drink it every morning.
I LOVE cranberry juice cocktail! I got very addicted to it back in junior highschool cross country practice. Nothing refreshes you more than a can of cran after a hard day of running.
Also I had a drug test 2 days after I hung out with an old friend of mine who is very into…an illicit green smokable product…and passed the test! And I only drank 2 gallons in 2 days (only about double my average).
Drinking anything with a high acid content will lower the pH in your urinary tract (and the rest of your body, for that matter) which makes it less hospitable to our friends the microbes. Also, the acid can disolve calcium or magnesium salt deposits, so if you have kidney stones and the like, it make help there, too.
Orange juice is a better choice than lemon juice (lemons are sour because they have less sugar… oranges have more sour stuff in them, concentration wise).
I prefer cranberry capsules to juice. It’s certainly better than taking antibiotics like Bactrim.
Also, pineapple juice is probably not a good idea.
Though it has a lot of groovy acid, thanks to the plant’s rather interesting metabolism (It makes a 4 carbon organic acid to store during the day time while oxygen conentrations are high to avoid problems with rubisco’s dual affinity lowering sugar yeilds), it also has a bunch of indigestible (by humans) three carbon sugars, also thanks to it’s groovy metabolism. The sugars will end up in various body fluids, where bacteria, if present, can break them down. So, while you might end up with sweeter tasting fluids, it probably won’t help a urinary tract infection.
I second (or is it third) the cranberry capsules. You can find it at a regular ol’ drugstore next to the vitamins, herbs, and such. Works just as quickly as the juice.
I am going to look for the cranberry capsules. We have a health food store and spa in town that probably has them.
Around here, the major drug stores carry the capsules, so you should be able to find them. If you decide to keep on the juice as well, try the Light Cranberry Cocktail by Ocean Spray. Less sugar (it has splenda in it, IIRC) but all the benefits of cranberry juice. If you need to cut it evn farther, it is great mixed 50/50 with a light diet soda.
To clarify, the acidity doesn’t have much to do with the efficacy.
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Not with cranberry juice but I have experienced a similar phenomenon a day after eating a pound of smoked salmon. My poo smelled like Lake Michigan (i.e.: dead fish)!
Knudsen’s Cranberry Nectar is a good 100 juice cranberry drink that tastes pretty good – still a bit tart, not overly sweet, and (best of all IMHO) is not too heavy on the white grape juice, as a lot of mixes are. You can find it in natural foods stores (or the natural foods section of a larger supermarket, either frozen or bottled.
(I’ve had three kidney stones and no recurrence since I started drinking cran juice regularly.)
That’s “100% juice.” My typing is remarkably dyslexic today, for some reason.
They are also available in large drugstores and pharmacie that carry supplements, like Drug Emporium. They don’t cost much. Good luck!