No juicy story."Homegrown Defender: Urinary infections face natural guard" (SN: 6/10/06, p. 355) leads me to ask if this explains the efficacy of that standard home remedy A home remedy is a treatment to cure a disease or ailment that employs certain spices, vegetables, or other common items from the kitchen. Home remedies may or may not have actual medicinal properties that serve to treat or cure the disease or ailment in question, as they are for preventing urinary tract infections urinary tract infection (UTI), n infection in one or more of the structures that make up the urinary system. Occurs more often in women and is most commonly caused by bacteria. : cranberry juice. Does it contain a cathelicidin mimic or some irritant ir·ri·tant adj. Causing irritation, especially physical irritation. n. A source of irritation. irritant, n 1. an agent that causes an irritation or stimulation. 2. that (benignly) stimulates cathelicidin secretions? GREGORY HONCHUL, WEST LIBERTY, KY. There is evidence that the juice can thwart bladder infections, but the mechanism appears to be in preventing bacteria from binding to cells lining the urinary tract. The microbes then get flushed out. In contrast, the body's homemade cathelicidins puncture a bacterium's membrane and kill it, a more direct approach.--N. SEPPA SEPPA Southeastern Professional Photographers Association SEPPA St Edmund's Past Pupils Association |
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