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[CLKD]

Cranberry juice has been proven to have no special properties  - it was a fad a few years ago 

I would give Mum some wipes in a packet with the words "These are new on the Market, I find them really useful" ...... also, does your Mum use panty liners because these can cause irritation and infection if not changed often enough. 

Like a cat which gets too old to lick itself behind the neck and shoulder blades, maybe your Mum is stiff in the shoulders or worried about leaning forwards to wipe properly.  I know that many Indian ladies always have a special flannel for bottom use  which they use after each visit rather than loo paper.  Another suggestion perhaps?

[littleminnie]

I know people who take cranberry tablets and say they really help. Must be worth a try, the yoghurt obviously isn't working. They sell them in all the supermarkets.

[CLKD]

Of course they sell them in all types of shops - they believed the hype too  - they won't do any harm but I can't stand the taste  but one needs to be aware that the 'properties' originally recommended as not as stated .........

[Limpy]

Cranberry tablets have helped to reduce discomfort for me, as has pure Cranberry juice (vile tasting) 
I also know people (men) who have had prostrate surgery and getting bladder problems post surgery, have been recommended to use cranberry tablets by the hospital.

[Joyce]

Not sure if cranberry juice was a fad CLKD as it still works for many. I used the tablets last year after bout of cystitis and they were very good. I think HB herself used  cranberry juice to help her.

[CLKD]

It may well help.    if one can get over the taste 

How is your mum today?

[honeybun]

I have used it and found it very good but it was the pure stuff from the health shop. Mother won't take it as it upsets her already sensitive stomach.
She spent today with my sister and just drank two cups of tea the whole day.

Going to try to figure out a way to get more fluids into her somehow as I think this is a big factor.

Honeyb
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[CLKD]

Lollies?  Ice-cream.  Fresh fruit particularly melon or mangoes.

Fruits that can be prepared and stored on a plate in slices in the fridge: or from a tin, i.e. peaches with ice-cream?  Sorbets?  Milk shakes?  Guiness?

[Pennyfarthing]

Cranberry juice has been proven to have no special properties  - it was a fad a few years ago 

I would give Mum some wipes in a packet with the words "These are new on the Market, I find them really useful" ...... also, does your Mum use panty liners because these can cause irritation and infection if not changed often enough. 

Like a cat which gets too old to lick itself behind the neck and shoulder blades, maybe your Mum is stiff in the shoulders or worried about leaning forwards to wipe properly.  I know that many Indian ladies always have a special flannel for bottom use  which they use after each visit rather than loo paper.  Another suggestion perhaps?

I think you're a bit out of touch CLKD.  Current thinking is that cranberry juice DOES help with things like cystitis and UTI's.  My friend is a "Modern Matron" and has been a nurse all her working life. She was telling me that they are also using cranberry juice to keep catheters and other similar stuff clean because of its special properties.

[CLKD]

What's special I wonder?  I wonder what Ben has on the topic 

[honeybun]

As I understand it the likes of Ocean Spray is pretty useless as if you look at the actual amount of juice it is very small.
On the other hand the pure juice is excellent. It is very strong but you have to read the instructions carefully because for it to work the amount of juice to water has to be quite precise.
I think Ocean Sprays claims were found to be false and they had to remove adverts stating it was a cure for bladder problems.

I had cystitis which refuse to go. I had no infection so the GP would not give me ABs. The pure cranberry juice did the trick.


So I agree with PF, it does work if you you use right stuff.

Honeyb
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Honeyb
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[CLKD]

  Honeybun.  That's what was in the back of my mind 

How's your Mum today?

[honeybun]

She is ok thanks CLKD.

Being her usual happy cheery self this morning. 

I actually think I need to take some of my own advice as my bladder is feeling a bit uncertain tonight. Got a bit of pain with it. Sample into the GP in the morning I think. Off for a large drink of water.

Honeyb
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[CLKD]

Oh poor you

[Pennyfarthing]

Regulars may remember my Mum (89) questioning whether she is really entitled to her blue badge a few weeks ago.  I took her out today and now she is questioning whether she should be paying for her prescriptions!!!

I told her that once you are 60 you get free prescriptions and it won't be that long before I'll be getting them.  Then she showed me a cutting about some benefit fraudster claiming all sorts of benefits while he had a bank account with £78,000 in it and he wasn't even disabled.

She hasn't got anywhere near that in the bank by the way!

She says "but I get my winter heating allowance."  I explained that all pensioners get that but I swear she doesn't believe me.