Any OTC medications that can cure a urinary tract infection?!

Any OTC medications that can cure a urinary tract infection?

I have all the symptoms of a urinary tract infection. According to all the research I've done, the infection seems to still be in my bladder and hasn't spread. I really don't have the time to go to the doctor right now, so I'd love it if I could treat it OTC. Any suggestions?

Hi:

Cranberry juice, cranberry juice and cranberry juice. Oh, did I mention cranberry juice?

If you can't drink thousands of gallons of cranberry juice, it does come in the form of a capsule. Check the herbal suppliment isle in your local pharmacy.

Here are some other tried and tryed recipes:

Mix 1/4 tsp of baking SODA in about 1/2 glass (4 oz) of water. Drink 2 glasses of plain water the the mixture you just made. Yuk, I know but do it anyway... The baking soda helps to create a less acidic environment inside your bladder which makes it harder for the bacteria to thrive so they begin to die off.

Don't drink drinks with a high acid content as that will defeat the purpose of the baking soda nad water mixture. Plus bacteria love to live in a place with lots of acid. the less acid you can have in your bladder, the less bacteria you will have.

Garlic is a huge wonderful medicinal herb. Garlic seems to HATE bacteria and thrives of killing them. So try this one for those bladder bacteria...

Garlic Tea:
(I hope you like garlic) peel a few fresh cloves of garlic. The kind you but pre sliced or pre chopped in a jar will not work. So peel a few cloves, smash and mash as my boys say, smash and mash those cloves smash and mash them well. drop them in a mug of hot water and let it steep for about 5 minutes. If you dont have any fresh garlic but you have garlic POWDER (NOT the salt) then add abut a tsp into the hot water and drink up but be careful not to burn yourself on the hot liquid.

And the last one I can think of is an herb called Goldenseal. Goldenseal is not so fond of Ecoli bacteria which is the most common bacteria that causes UTI's. But Goldenseal also has a bonus to it. It will also stimulate your immune system and helps with the swelling in the urinart tract.

I just looked up in my book the usual dosage of Goldensel to take daily. My books state you can take 500 - 1,000mg of Goldenseal extract daily for up to one week. Do not take it more than 1 week.

I hope you feel better soon, take care.

Be safe and be well