Everyone knows that drinking lots of cranberry juice wards of urinary tract infections, but why?
Well, the bacteria that causes bladder infections have little hair-like substances that attach to the bladder where they
can multiply and cause infection. The chemicals in cranberries, called proanthocyanidins, bind to the hairs of the bacteria and prevent it from adhering to the bladder wall. The proanthocyanidins basically glob up the bacteria and flush it out of your system instead of allowing it to linger and cause infection. Notice, the cranberry chemicals remove rather than kill the bacteria. This is why cranberry juice does not treat an infection but rather helps to prevent it. Bottom line, keep the cranberries coming before you get a UTI. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, right?
Easy pee-sy.
