(Redrock12) Is prednisone an effective treatment for a bladder infection?
A: No.
Q: (Joe) D-mannose and cranberry juice.
(L) D-mannose, cranberry juice, sodium bicarbonate.
(Joe) If it's just a straight up bladder infection, d-mannose is very effective.
I listened to a Dr Mercola podcast regarding methylene blue benefits (I attached the whole transcript) with Dr Francisco Gonzalez-Lima.
One of uses is for bladder infections:
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Francisco Gonzalez-Lima:
In other words, the parent compound, the methylene blue is coming out through the urine. So as
the hours go by after you take methylene blue, it starts to become stored in your bladder. And by
the way, from a medical point of view, before the antibiotics were used for urinary tract
infections, like an infection in your bladder, methylene blue was used in higher doses than what
I'm telling you now. So that the methylene blue then increases concentration inside the bladder,
and it had that antiseptic effect. And I can tell you that that was much more effective than the
antibiotics, for example, that are used with the elderly, especially elderly women who suffer
from repeated chronic urinary tract infections, that they have to go through a round of antibiotics
every time. However, very few, if any, physicians use methylene blue in this way.
Francisco Gonzalez-Lima:
And in that case, the dose, usually in the U.S., there was a medication available in pills that were
of 65 milligrams each. And so you will take two to three of these pills daily for urinary tract
infections. And I have witnessed this. We haven't published a result of this but this was
something that was available and marketed. However, at some point, the use of antibiotics
became so preferential choice that all of these applications were lost. And I can see that, I mean,
older people with recurring urinary tract infection going through rounds of antibiotics every
month is not beneficial, but if they have methylene blue and [inaudible 00:51:02], even with the
low amounts that we use for cognitive enhancement, it concentrates in a large enough way in the
bladder to prevent also the urinary tract infections.
Dr. Joseph Mercola:
And it's interesting because it's functioning in a way that is much different than it does in the
mitochondria, because it's a much higher dose and it's actually a very potent oxidant and kills the
bacteria but it seems foolish that this is not used more commonly, especially in the elderly,
because it's so useful in cognitive components and addressing dementia, which you're going to
talk about in a bit. I mean, there's a lot of trials going on using methylene blue to help alleviate or
even prevent dementia. So, I mean, you get it too far when you use it for urinary tract infections
in the elderly.
Francisco Gonzalez-Lima:
Yeah, that's true. It is the case that in this case you're taking advantage of that biphasic dose
response by having the low levels being circulating in your blood acting in the nervous tissue
which it concentrates on, but when you're excreting it, it starts building up in your bladder, and
then you have the other biphasic effect that it becomes a pro-oxidant, and that's how it kills the
bacteria by becoming a pro-oxidant and using oxidative damage in the bacteria.
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