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One Shot, Two Kills: Multiple Bacterial Infection

Posted in Infection Killing Protocol, Troubleshooting, and Useful Tips

This freaks people out when it happens, but it’s surprisingly common to have more than one type of bacteria show up in a culture. And it’s often a gram negative/gram positive pair, like E. coli with Group B strep, or Enterococcus.

This is actually pretty simple to address: just keep in mind that the gram negative bacteria replicates faster and can swim to the kidneys, whereas the gram positive kinds aren’t near so virulent in the bladder.

Ergo, you go after the gram negative bacteria first. After that one has gone down under your assault you take aim on the gram positive.

Optimally, you want to use the natural meds that attack both bacteria, while keeping your pH at a level to discourage the gram negative bacteria.

(For instance, if you have E. coli + Enterococcus you’d take juiced ginger, raw garlic or horseradish, and OLE, using lemon juice to keep your urine pH alkaline, then add in ascorbic acid when E. coli is dead, dropping the lemon.)

Go to the Kill List Series category, find your bacteria, see which meds kill both/all (I’ve seen cultures that showed 3-4 bacteria in there), and take all the ones those profiles have in common.

Keep testing every morning, and when all nitrites have been gone for 3 days straight, or a new culture shows that the gram negative one is gone, drop the alkalizing lemon and start taking ascorbic acid Vitamin C to lower your pH. Keep going until your leuks are clear at the 5 minute mark for 3 days straight, then you can start tapering down. (If you’re super paranoid you can watch that test till the 10 minute mark.)

As always, you want to check your stomach acid: if it’s low you use lemon juice shots till the gram negative bacteria is dead, then switch to HCL with meals. Read the instructions in the Kill List posts carefully, and these essential tips for killing any infection.

The Hippocrates Special

Posted in Immediate UTI Treatment, Infection Killing Protocol, Supplements, and Useful Tips

Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”–Hippocrates

This is an alternative strategy for killing a gram negative (E. coli, Klebsiella, Proteus) UTI purely with produce, and a juicer. Alternative instructions are given for a gram positive infection.

If you don’t already have a juicer, a cheap $30 centrifugal one from Wal-Mart/Target/Bed, Bath & Beyond will do the job, but a masticating one is best: you can get an $85-95 model on Amazon. The difference is that the centrifugal one oxidizes the ingredients during the process, meaning their medicinal and nutritional value has a limited life span: you want to drink that juice right away.

The Kill List: Klebsiella Edition

Posted in Infection Killing Protocol, Profiles, Supplements, The Kill List Series, and Useful Tips

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Klebsiella is the second most common cause of UTIs and has two different species that cause infection: K. pneumoniae and K. oxytoca. Like E. coli, it is motile (the little bastards can swim) and gram-negative, meaning it too can be suppressed by alkalizing the urine.
K. pneumoniae is the most common, and is often quite antibiotic resistant. That species name does indeed mean what you think it means: it’s the bacteria that causes pneumonia. That sounds scary, but don’t worry: there’s a silver bullet in the arsenal for this one.

The Kill List: E. coli Edition

Posted in Infection Killing Protocol, Profiles, Supplements, The Kill List Series, and Useful Tips

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We’re going to go pathogen-by-pathogen in a Kill List series, listing the best weapons against each type of bacteria, and the pH you want to maintain in order to suppress growth. Listed next to the pH is what you can use to get it to that level. The posts are ordered by how common that bacteria is in the bladder.
The natural meds are listed in order of how broad-spectrum they are against all the different strains of that bacteria, and potency (how capable they are of killing an antibiotic-resistant infection single-handedly).
E. coli is first in the series because it’s the most common; it has so many different strains; and so many different things can be used against them.

The Mother of All Problems

Posted in Troubleshooting, Useful Tips, and UTI Causes

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The vast majority of people who’ve contacted me about their bladder issues have a chronic case of low stomach acid.
That’s right, LOW stomach acid. High acid is far, far less common than low acid: if you get heartburn, you have low acid. If you always bloat after meals, you have low acid. If you’re chronically constipated, suffer from kidney stones, cavities, weak nails, thyroid problems, undigested food in your stool, pee red after eating beets, your urine pH is chronically acidic on an alkaline diet, and/or nothing you take seems to do you or your bladder any good….*drumroll*

Troubleshooting: It Burns, and Nothing Works

Posted in Immediate UTI Treatment, Troubleshooting, Useful Tips, and Vaginal Health

If you’ve got urethra burning and bladder frequency that nothing will stop, not baking soda water, not raw garlic, not OLE, brace yourself, darling.

You don’t have a UTI: you have an infection of your lady tissues. I’m talking the vagina, the inner labia, the clitoris all around the urethra: the whooole enchilada. Maybe you’ve had a swab culture done recently that didn’t turn up anything, or a doctor has taken hisself a gander and declared it looks fine to him….but honey badger don’t care.

 

Profiles in Power: The Real Role of Vitamin C in UTI Treatment

Posted in Cellulitis, Infection Killing Protocol, Profiles, Supplements, and Useful Tips

I know, I know…I threw some heavy shade on it in the Emergency Relief post. That’s because the vast majority of UTI’s are caused by the gram negative bacteria E. coli, which as I cover in The pH Connection, is highly acid-adaptive. Ascorbic acid Vitamin C, the most common form, is highly acidifying in the urine, meaning it’ll hurt more than it will help with an E. coli infection.

In E. coli, ascorbic acid is taken up and metabolized by a specific phosphotransferase system and a series of enzymatic reactions

There’s Vitamin C in the lemon juice you’re using to keep your bladder flushed out, so it’s not like you’re not getting any, you’re just not taking the acidic form.

While even alkaline forms of Vitamin C seem to have limited effect on most UTI bacteria, if you’ve had your UTI cultured and it’s caused by staphylococcus or strep, you should drop everything and go directly to ascorbic acid. In large doses it slaughters antibiotic-resistant gram positive infections with an enthusiasm that puts Mongol hordes to shame. I fell over this fact while I was searching for a cure for a serious cat bite infection.