My wife now knows not to insist on pure cranberry juice, but rather to request a 100% juice blend and not “cocktail” (the cocktail is what the juice blend goes in). I finished the battery acid myself over the course of a few weeks, out of pure Floridaman cussedness. It was not pleasant.
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.
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.
My wife also swears by it, but I’m curious if objective testing might reveal if it’s actually relieving pain, or if the act of drinking this stuff is temporarily raising one’s pain tolerance to the degree that the UTI pain doesn’t seem so bad.
Mix in powdered magic mushrooms. Works like lemontek to make the trip shorter and more intense, and masks the difficult-to-get-down flavour.
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