Stopping Catheter-Related Urine Infections with Waterfall D-Mannose
The product known as 'Waterfall D-Mannose', an extract of fermented larch wood produced by Sweet Cures of York, is proving to be very effective at treating and preventing catheter-related urinary tract infections.
(PRWEB) February 24, 2005 -- After a former staff nurse, Fiona Richardson,
who suffers from multiple sclerosis, wrote an article for New Pathways Magazine,
[http://www.msrc.co.uk about
how Waterfall D-Mannose has changed her life, Sweet Cures has been inundated
with self-catheterising customers, some of whom have been plagued with bladder
infections for years, despite ongoing antibiotic treatments. Almost all of the
customers have reported complete alleviation of symptoms, and are now using
Waterfall D-Mannose to prevent new infections.
According to Anna Sawkins,
a partner in Sweet Cures, the results have astonished both patients and doctors,
and have proved that Waterfall D-Mannose works both to cure catheter-related
infections, and prevent reinfection, even in a hospital environment. For
example, consultants in Stoke Mandeville Spinal Injuries unit were surprised
that a patient who was in for six weeks treatment, and had previously been
plagued with bladder infections, had no E.coli or Klebsiella infections during
his stay. He had refused antibiotics, since they had previously proven
ineffective, and was self-dosing with Waterfall D-Mannose. They have since
recommended the product to other patients.
John Bremner, the other
partner in Sweet Cures, reinforces the point, “We have doctors passing our
leaflets to their patients rather than providing antibiotics, and we have
long-term results from many customers who appear to have permanently cured
antibiotic-resistant cystitis problems. Our product has been recommended by
consultants, gynaecologists, and family doctors, and has proven itself in the
real world.”
He quotes a damning Bandolier study of hospital related
cystitis:
“About a quarter of hospital patients have a urinary catheter
some time during their stay, and an average of 5% (range 3-10%) will acquire a
urinary tract infection every day. Clearly, then, almost all patients will have
an infection after about a month. This can extend hospital stay by about three
extra days, and patients with a urinary tract infection are three times more
likely to die. The case-fatality rate from urinary tract related bacteraemia is
13%.” - Bandolier [http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band67/b67-4.html
Since
Waterfall D-mannose stops urinary tract infections in over 90% of cases, and
almost 100% where E.coli is the bacterium concerned, it seems clear that a lot
of unnecessary deaths could be prevented if hospitals switched to using
Waterfall D-Mannose instead of antibiotics for E.coli related UTIs.
John
Bremner points out that it is important to achieve a high enough concentration
of the product in the urine. “For catherised patients on constant drain, it may
be necessary, when using Waterfall D-mannose, to interrupt the flow of urine for
an hour or so by valving the catheter if this is possible. This allows the
d-mannose in the urine long enough to interfere with the attachment mechanism of
the bacteria. This is not a bad thing, since the bladder shrinks if it never
gets the chance to fill, and that can cause its own problems.”
The
average treatment dose is 1.6 grams, taken preferably with a warm drink. Trials
have shown that an effective concentration in the urine is around 5.5 mg of
mannose per millilitre of urine, so it’s better to take the product with 100 to
150ml of fluid, then to wait an hour before drinking another 200 to
300ml.
It is particularly interesting to the medical profession that
Waterfall D-Mannose works as well on antibiotic-resistant recurrent E.coli
infections as it does on fresh infections. “This is because Waterfall D-Mannose
works in a completely different way from antibiotics,” Mr Bremner points out.
Effectively, instead of killing the E.coli as antibiotics do, the
product uses one of E.coli’s greatest strengths – the ability to attach to the
mannose receptors in our cells, as a weapon against it. When you take Waterfall
D-Mannose, (it’s a pleasant tasting powder that can be dissolved in a drink),
over ninety percent of the mannose consumed is in the urine within an hour. The
E.coli latches onto the most easily accessible mannose – the mannose in the
urine, rather than the cell walls, bio-molecularly filling up the lectins (the
molecular attachment points) that it normally uses to attach to the bladder and
urinary tract. Since the mannose attachment is crucial to E.coli and some other
bacteria’s ability to attach to cells, the bugs are then flushed away with
normal urination. The E.coli that has already managed to attach to the bladder
is gradually teased away, providing a full bladder cleanse. This allows the
bladder to heal naturally, and since there are no bacteria actually killed in
the process, there is no resultant thrush – a common side-effect of using
antibiotics.
Interestingly, Waterfall D-Mannose also flushes away
‘debris’ – the broken and empty shells of dead E.coli – one possible cause of
the painful bladder syndrome commonly known as interstitial cystitis.
John Bremner explains, “E.coli are bio-molecularly attached to tissue
cells in the urinary tract and bladder, so when you kill them with antibiotics,
the molecular bonds are not broken – it’s not as if they can consciously let go.
Waterfall D-Mannose has the ability to break these bonds, and release the debris
into the urine where it will be flushed away along with the live E.coli that
have their mannose receptors filled with the free mannose in the
urine.”
A six month clinical trial conducted by Michael Blue, a Urologist
in Oklahoma, has shown good evidence to support this theory.
“Of the 18
PBS females who were treated daily with two scoops of D-Mannose, 17 (94%)
reported symptom improvement, the lone exception being a subject unable to be
contacted, but also not returning for treatment. Eighty percent became totally
symptom free.” [www.healingtherapies.info/D-Mannose.htm
Meanwhile,
Sweet Cures has gone from strength to strength. An Italian version of their www.waterfall-d-mannose.com website was recently released, www.waterfall-d-mannose.com/Italy/ and they are working on a
Dutch translation next. They also have a major distributor in Austria, and they
send the product worldwide to individuals, therapists, health clinics, and
doctors.
“The fact is,” says Anna McNamara, “that we have a product that
is considerably more effective than antibiotics or any other treatment for
E.coli and Klebsiella related UTIs and bladder infections, and also for painful
bladder symptoms or interstitial cystitis. No doctor is really happy with giving
out antibiotics unnecessarily, but until now they had no choice. Waterfall
D-Mannose provides a better, safer, more effective option, and more and more
doctors are starting to get behind us, often as a result of their own patients
telling them of this quick solution to antibiotic-resistant urine
infections.”
Contact Details: Sweet Cures, Raveloe House, 101 Foxwood
Lane, York, YO24 3LQ Tel: 01904-340916 www.waterfall-d-mannose.com
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