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You Can Treat a Bladder Infection Yourself


"It hurts when I pee!" If you are having discomfort when you urinate or keep having to go a lot or have a sense of urgency to go, then maybe you have a bladder infection. The good news is that you can treat it yourself with non-prescription products that are probably available at a store near you now, if you live in the USA. No going to the doctor. No prescription drugs. There are safe non-prescription products available for treating a bladder infection, usually at a cost of less than $20.

We're not selling any product and have absolutely no association with the manufacturers of the non-prescription products described below. We provide information -- information to help you in treating your bladder infection yourself. If you treat yourself using the products that we'll will inform you about, then in just 2-3 hours you will feel much better. 

For a $5 fee you'll receive a detailed plan in writing, (to walk you thru it,) for dealing with your urinary tract infection. It will help you think through what you can do from start to finish.

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A) See if you have the symptoms of a bladder infection

(If you have had bladder infections in the past and think that the symptoms you are having now are similar enough such that you are confident that you have a bladder infection now, then you can skip down past the self-assessment part.) First, let's think about what a bladder infection is. Sometimes people call it a "urinary tract infection" or "UTI". The term "urinary tract infection" is not specific, because "urinary tract" could also refer to parts of the urinary tract other than the bladder, like the kidneys. But the medical community often uses that term for a bladder infection anyway. A more accurate word for a simple bladder infection is "cystitis." (Note that a simple bladder infection is not interstitial cystitis, which is something different. This page is not about interstitial cystitis, though many women have used these products successfully for interstitial cystitis, too.)

Just above your waistline, there are two kidneys, one on each side of your lower back. The blood in your body passes thru the kidneys continually. As the blood passes thru, the kidneys filter out many things to excrete, thereby creating urine. The urine produced by a kidney passes thru a short tube called the ureter, which goes into the bladder. So you have two kidneys and two ureters, which lead into one bladder. The bladder is a holding tank that expands as it fills up with urine. When it starts getting full it sends a signal to the brain, telling you that it is time to urinate. Then when you urinate, a muscle releases the urine out thru a tube called the urethra, located at the bottom of the bladder. The little hole that is on the outside, where you can see urine come out, is the tip of the urethra.

Let's see if you have some of the known symptoms of a bladder infection. The website of LSU Health Sciences Center, a medical university, contains a list of common bladder infection symptoms, which were inserted below. (The last time we checked the link was located at http://lib-sh.lsuhsc.edu/fammed/pted/uti.html.)

Have you recently started having one or more of the listed possible symptoms of a bladder infection?

  • Burning or painful urination. (It hurts when you pee.)
  • Stinky urine. 
  • Increased urgency to urinate. 
  • Lower stomach pain. (lower abdomen)
  • Having to urinate a lot.
So if after reviewing those symptoms, you feel like you have a bladder infection and want to treat yourself fast, effectively, and inexpensively, without going to a physician, then read on. We'll provide you with more information to help you make your decision.


B) Make sure you do NOT have the common symptoms of a kidney infection

The biggest concern when treating a bladder infection is that you do not want to confuse a kidney infection with a simple bladder infection and then try to treat yourself, at least not for long. (Actually, it is reported that physicians make this same mistake regularly.) Allowing a kidney infection to continue untreated for a prolonged period of time could lead to kidney damage. A bladder infection can sometimes move up the ureter(s) to infect one or both kidneys.

Fortunately, the vast majority of urinary tract infections are simple bladder infections (cystitis) that do not involve a significant infection of the kidneys. You need to make sure that you are not having symptoms of a kidney infection. The LSU medical university website quoted above, lists symptoms of a kidney infection. You could use their list of symptoms as a guideline to decide whether you have something more serious than a simple bladder infection, and need to go to a physician instead of treating yourself.

The symptoms they list are (1)"severe back pain," and/or (2) "high fever," and/or (3) "vomiting." You may want to be even a little more cautious than they were on that website, because their list is not as complete as it could be.

Regarding "severe back pain" - Back pain can be confusing, since women can have back pain for reasons other than a kidney infection. To clarify the back pain thing -- if on one or both sides of your lower back you have pain which is NEW and UNUSUAL, not menstrual cramps, not a backache due to lifting or injury or some long-term back problem that you have, then you should suspect that your bladder infection has become a kidney infection too. So the number one thing to look out for is unexpected low back pain.

Regarding "high fever" - If you are running even a low fever, then you could suspect a kidney infection, if you also feel really bad/sick, such that you find yourself saying or thinking things like "I feel terrible," or "I don't know if I'm gonna be able to make it today. I feel really bad," etc. A bladder infection does not typically make you feel really bad in general. It just makes your urinary parts feel bad.

Regarding "vomiting" - You may want to expand "vomiting" to include prolonged nausea without vomiting. That's because some people just do not vomit very easily, and may feel nauseated, without actually vomiting.

So, to recap what was just said about a kidney infection, if you have the symptoms of a bladder infection and also have any of the following symptoms, then you should suspect that you have a both a bladder and a kidney infection, and go to a physician: (1) New and unusual low back pain, or (2) high fever, or low fever combined with generally feeling bad, or (3) vomiting, or prolonged nausea without vomiting, especially if you vomit very rarely even when you feel nauseated.

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C) Cautions

Do NOT try to treat yourself for a bladder infection with the medicines if you:

  1. have any of the above-listed symptoms of a kidney infection,
  2. are pregnant or nursing,
  3. are diabetic,
  4. have had more than 1 kidney infection in the past, (as opposed to just bladder infections, often just called "urinary tract infections,")
  5. have had a catheter inserted in your urethra within the last 10 days,
  6. have AIDS or another serious immune system problem,
  7. are on dialysis, or have any known long-term kidney or urinary problems or defects,
  8. have been trying to treat a urinary tract infection with prescription drugs any time within the last 2-3 weeks and have not been successful,
  9. are male,
  10. have hepatitis or other liver problems,
  11. use a diuretic (water pill) routinely,
  12. cannot take aspirin or aspirin-like products due to an allergy or serious stomach problems,
  13. often get nausea or stomach distress when you take any kind of medicine by mouth,
  14. are not in the United States,
  15. have had the symptoms of a bladder infection for more than one month already,
  16. are not willing to accept the slightly higher health risks associated with self-treatment versus going to a physician.
    This document cannot cover every possible scenario. So in no way are we trying to help you be your own physician and make choices just as wisely as he would. It gives basic information which you use to make decisions about self-treatment. But you are really treating yourself. Obviously, if you have some unusual or serious condition, you will not diagnose it. But a physician may be able to. It will take 3 days to see if self-treatment is going to work. So you would be delaying the detection of any serious problem by 3 days. It is a risk which is very slight, but one which you need to think about before you treat yourself. This risk is probably similar to those which you take any time you treat yourself for any medical problem, like nasal symptoms, sore throat, stomach ache, knee pain, headache, rashes, etc.

D) Decide and See Guarantee

Okay. We have thought about the vast majority of potential problems that you might encounter when trying to treat yourself for a bladder infection. 

The fee for directing you to the remaining self-treatment information is $5.

Maybe you have only been accustomed to paying physicians (and not pharmacists) for medical information. Certainly you can go pay a physician a higher fee than our $5 fee, and then go buy the prescription drug, and have to wait at both places. Going that route will cost you more money and more time. We have a solution that is cheaper, easier, and medically sound. Also, in case you have the thought that you can just go ask a pharmacist near you and get the same info for free, you almost certainly will not.

Most non-prescription medicines just mask the symptoms without treating the problem. But there is a non-prescription urinary antibacterial drug. It is medically sound, but not widely-known. At least it is not widely-known as a non-prescription medicine.

So if you call up some health care professional and he tells you that you have to see a doctor, or that all you can do is drink more fluids, then don't be surprised. Prescription medicines with the same ingredient are widely-known and used. The reason that it is not widely-known as a non-prescription treatment is it is not marketed very actively by the company that makes it, since they do not have a patent on it, and therefore cannot charge a high price for it.

You just pay a fee of $5.00 for our service of providing you with the bladder infection self-treatment information that you need. After you pay the fee you will be directed to a page describing a urinary tract antibacterial, other helpful medicine, and how they can be used. You can then print off the information, and save it for your own future personal use and for the use of anyone in your household. (Not for copy to display or distribute to others.) The products that will be recommended are commonly available at many local pharmacies in the United States.

WELLNESS GUARANTEED!
The Wellness Guarantee is this. First you need to have read this document through completely. Second, after you pay there will be more info on the medicine that you can use. You will need to read that document too. Third, you need to take the information that provided and use it to treat yourself well and prevent side effects. If you do that, then we'll refund your money if 

  1. after you read the next document, you decide to go to a physician instead of treating yourself, or
  2. you cannot find the needed products near you, or
  3. your bladder infection fails to go away after you treat yourself, or
  4. you experience unpleasant side effects, so that you have to stop using the medicine.
This kind of Wellness Guarantee is practically unheard of in healthcare.

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