Cranberry Juice and the Urinary Tract

I've always heard that a very good treatment for urinary tract infections is cranberry juice.

The mechanism stated to me was a potent bacteriostatic action at multiple levels with the vitamin c in conjunction with various other constituents of the pulp and skin of the berries themselves.

The ramifications of this are astounding given it's propensity to heal great masses of suffering individuals.

Indeed, it has been stated by one of my most respected physician friends that the reduction was significant to the point of elimination of many courses of antibiotics.

A recent study by Ocean Spray Cranberries (of course) has supported this advice given to me in the early 1970s to a fair-thee-well.

The incidence for infection in two groups of people, one of which drank the juice daily were significant with a much lower number of cases and severity for the group drinking a daily cranberry juice compared to a placebo control.

The moral of the story is two fold: cranberry juice is decidedly advantageous to those who are predisposed to urinary tract infections and not all old wives tales are unsubstantiated drivel.