Fighting Cystitis & UTIs with Waterfall D-Mannose

Using Waterfall D-Mannose to reduce E.coli Infections related to Catheterisation

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The dose level of Waterfall D-Mannose for catheterised/catheterising people, men or women, generally needs to be higher than the dose level for people who do not catheterise. The actual amount you need to take will be found best by trial and error. Best to start on higher dose levels and gradually reduce the dose to the point where you are still keeping infections at bay. If you feel an infection starting, it is an indication that you may not be taking enough to cope with the level of bacteria present in the urine. If you stay symptom free for a period of time when you would have expected an infection, it is usually safe to reduce the dose frequency or level, and perhaps just take more around the time of changing the catheter.

Catheterised patients or people who self-catheterise are prone to bladder and urethral infections because bacteria are everywhere, even in the air. So no matter how clean you are, it is difficult to prevent contamination of the catheter and reinfection. Besides using Waterfall D-Mannose as recommended for treating normal cystitis, (which even in cathterising people is often enough to solve infections and keep them at bay) there are other ways you can help. Clearly, this advice is not going to be suitable for everyone, so take what you find useful from it. We learned some of what we know about using catheters with Waterfall D-Mannose from a gentleman called Tony Treadgold who is a spinal injury patient who astonished his consultants by successfully keeping infections at bay without antibiotics during a six-week stint in hospital. This, while everyone else despite prophylactic antibiotics, was getting infection after infection.

Also, people with supra-pubic catheters usually just need to take extra Waterfall D-Mannose, especially aroud the time of changing the catheter.

After dealing with a lot of people with this problem, we have learned a few tricks that you can try. Take these precautions with fresh catheters too, and if you are not self-catherising, don't let someone else contaminate you. The plain fact is that contamination of catheters does not need to happen, and you might have to speak up to protect yourself, and refuse a catheter that is not sterile, or you see being contaminated.

Remember that despite existing precautions, you are still having problems with infections (or you would be unlikely to be reading this), so please do not lightly dismiss the precautions here.

1. Before handling the catheter, bathe and wear fresh clothes (or no clothes) to ensure that the catheter does not come into contact with anything that may contaminate it. So don't let the catheter touch anything that is not sterile. If you cut it, ensure that the scissors are sterile. Don't put it down on the bedclothes.
2. During this entire procedure, be careful not to touch hair, nose, or anything else that is not known to be sterile. Best to tie your hair back first if it is long.
3. The nose and mouth are harbours for E.coli. Best to wear a surgical mask. If you cough or sneeze without a mask at any time during this procedure, you have probably contaminated the catheter, or your gloves, and must start again.
4. Scrub up properly using an antibacterial liquid wash, right up to the elbows. Also very carefully (but gently) wash the genital area.
5. Wear sterile disposable gloves before opening the catheter pack. Lay the catheter on a sterile tray and cover it with a suitably prepared lid.
6. If reusing a catheter, (inadvisable, with the ready availability of sleeved disposable catheters), after cleaning it, flush it through with a solution of Waterfall D-Mannose (a teaspoonful in 50ml sterile water). Remember that E.coli can survive boiling, so ordinary boiled water is not clean enough. Sterile water can be obtained from most large chemists.
7. If using a fresh catheter that needs to be soaked, consider changing to a ready-to-use type. In any case, do not soak it in ordinary tap water – tap water is invariably contaminated with E.coli. Use sterile water, or boiled water with an approved sterilising solution in the water.
8. Allow the Waterfall D-Mannose to remain in the catheter for five minutes, then empty the catheter.
9. Change your gloves, being careful not to contaminate the outside of the fresh gloves.
10. Wipe the outside of the catheter with a sterile cloth soaked in sterile Waterfall D-Mannose solution.
11. Fill the catheter with a sterile solution of Waterfall D-Mannose. Peg the other end (with a pre-sterilised pag) to prevent emptying, and insert the catheter when it is full of Waterfall D-Mannose. If doing this yourself, you are better in a squatting or sitting position if possible (over the sterile tray or basin that the catheter is in).
12. Allow the Waterfall D-Mannose to remain in the catheter for five minutes before releasing the peg.
13. Finally, since a lot of people are originally catherised because of pain when their bladder is filling, rather than because they need one due to, for example a spinal injury, if you manage to remain symptom free using Waterfall D-Mannose, and you have urinary control, you could consider coming off the catheter entirely.

Once you have successfully dealt with an episode of cystitis using Waterfall D-Mannose, you can use it to keep infections at bay. In most cases it will be more effective than a prophylactic antibiotic, both as a preventative, and if necessary, to stop flare-ups from developing into full blown infections.

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This page is based on our own experience and information from our customers. Some of what we say here is based on our best guess of what is happening. We try to provide information that is accurate, but nothing we say here should be considered medical advice. This is for people who have explored the medical options and are looking for another way forward. Waterfall D-Mannose™ is an exceptionally effective alternative remedy. We are advising you how best to use that alternative remedy. Please see your doctor for medical advice.

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