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If you’ve got a UTI, it’s fantastic until you can get antibiotics. I don’t know why anyone would otherwise choose to drink it.
You can also take cranberry pills for the uti. We tried this route for my sil's uti. Whoopsie poopsie it turned out to be the beetus and we made it worse.
If you know your pancreas is healthy, go for it but those Rx uti pills are cheap and effective if you get them on the reg
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7824375/
Just drinking a lot of water is the best non-antibiotic treatment. Cranberry juice does not significantly impact an active UTI infection. Other much smaller studies indicate that it may be helpful, but the more robust studies show no real help.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29046404/
Other studies do show that cranberry juice can help reduce future UTI occurances though.
My ex had several UTIs and she said the cranberry helped the pain more than anything.
Mix in powdered magic mushrooms. Works like lemontek to make the trip shorter and more intense, and masks the difficult-to-get-down flavour.