Waterfall D-Mannose Review

by Scott Schofield

If you are a long term sufferer from uti and cystitis, you’ll probably already recall how cranberry juice – when you first tried it – appeared as a savior, the answer to all your prayers. Then, sadly, just as things were beginning to improve – your uti attacks or cystitis attacks began to return – and much worse than before!

Now why on earth is that? What’s happening? If it worked last year, why is it not working now, why am I back with recurring UTI infections after so long?

Well, e-coli (that notorious cause of most Cystitis / UTI and Bladder Infections) is known in medical circles as an adaptive bacterium, meaning that it is capable of adapting its nutritional requirements to its immediate environment. Then, because Cranberry makes urine acidic (rather than the normal neutral kind), you are effectively nourishing your e-coli whenever you drink Cranberry.

More than 5 years ago I began to religiously take cranberry every day, in the belief that it would reduce or eradicate my frequent UTI attacks. At first things improved, but then discovered that I still got just as many infections as previously.

When I began to conduct my own research I realized that I was wasting both my time and my money. I was accepting a fiction instead of taking the time to locate something that really worked (although I did find it in the end).

If it’s a myth, then why is cranberry so popular? Why do the “experts” say it works in reducing or curing Cystitis / UTI? Is its reputation totally underserved, or just partly undeserved? Here is a very basic encapsulation of the information I gleaned:

It is known (in scientific circles anyway) that e-coli bugs stick like crazy to the walls of the urinary tract, where they set up home and multiply. It is also a known fact that Cranberry juice has a mildly anti-adhesion property. Someone, somewhere, seems to have decided that if cranberry un-sticks bacteria, it MUST be good for you, and particularly good for cystitis sufferers and UTI sufferers.

However, I also believe that if you compare its anti-adhesion properties against the damage that can be done in producing acidic urine in which e-coli thrives, then the benefits just don’t outweigh the disadvantages, so cranberry fails miserably.

Another problem – cranberry can stop many antibiotics working effectively. Antibiotics work by damaging the bacteria’s cell walls. Adding cranberry-created hippuric acid to the urine just encourages the bacteria to grow a thicker skin, making a future use of antibiotics much less likely to succeed.

This is the reason that those UTI-sufferers who have been taking cranberry for years, frequently find that their physician’s normal course of antibiotics is insufficient and the infection quickly returns. This problem is compounded by the modern doctors’ unwillingness to prescribe more than the standard 1-week course of antibiotics, when really a month or more is needed.

“BUT IT WORKED SO WELL WHEN I STARTED USING IT!”

Yes, it often does! Drinking cranberry results in your urine becoming more acidic, and that will – at first – attack and kill many of those bacterial cells.

So you will immediately feel better, and probably proclaim cranberry as the miracle you have been searching for (I know I did). But that was only a temporary respite.

The remaining e-coli cells, (the stronger tougher ones), very soon get used to their new environment and begin to reproduce and breed ever-stronger clones of themselves. Your next attack will then be worse than any attack you had before you embarked on that cranberry-juice course (or do I mean cranberry juice curse)?

In reality, not all that I’ve outlined here happens to all cystitis or UTI-sufferers, but it really did happen to me! After 21 years of sporadic UTI-problems, I was informed about cranberry. I hated its taste, but taking a cranberry pill every day gave me more than four years of relief.

Then, right out of nowhere, I had a really terrible attack. So I increased my cranberry intake – but as it turned out – to no avail. I had to visit my physician and get a prescription for antibiotics. Then, just a few months later, I had another even more painful UTI, much worse than every before (I’ll spare you the gruesome details). It was only then that I accepted that cranberry no longer the cured for my UTI that I had believed.

I began to look for another option. It took a while, but I eventually located a natural remedy for UTI which is staggering in its simplicity. No known side-effects, no reaction to other drugs, isn’t actually absorbed by the body at all! And it can be used as a uti-preventative or as a highly effective UTI treatment.

It’s called Mannose, or D-Mannose, or Waterfall D Mannose (and no, I don’t know why). It is extracted from trees (just like the simple aspirin), and seems to offer solutions to many people for whom regular UTI’s are part of life. If you want to know more, follow the links in my final paragraph

About the Author:

Dr Scott Scofield is a therapist who writes on mainstream and alternative medicine. To learn more on how to effectively treat cystitis and UTI, or if you want to learn about bladder infection symptoms, visit his blog now.