I received a handout from my doctor on what to do when you have a bladder irritation:
1. Immediately take 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in water. This will alkalinize your urine and help prevent the acids in urine from interacting with sore and damaged tissues. The action is rapid.
2. A few hours later, take four Tums or another form of calcium carbonate. Repeat the dose 12 hours later. This will slowly release bicarbonate into your bladder tissue.
3.Take AZO (pyridium) or Urised or other over-the-counter analgesics.
4.Experiment with ice packs or heating pads to see which helps bad. Put them between your ledgs and press the pad against your genitals.
5. Drink a lot of clear fluids to dilute your urine.
6.Avoid most fruits, fruit juices, coffeetea, tomatoes, vinegar, watermelon, anchovies, caviar, champagne chicken livers, chocolate, cold cuts, lima beans, artificual sweetner Aspartame (Nutra Sweet), pickles, pork, rye bread, soy sauce, wines, yogurt (I thought yogurt was good!) and others with acid. The handout says you will feel better in 24 hours if you follow all 6 points. DO NOT SMOKE! Smoking causes damaged blood vessels to narrow and decreases the amount of oxygen to sensitive tissues.
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I received a handout from my doctor on what to do when you have a bladder irritation:
September 25, 2009 - 8:00am1. Immediately take 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in water. This will alkalinize your urine and help prevent the acids in urine from interacting with sore and damaged tissues. The action is rapid.
2. A few hours later, take four Tums or another form of calcium carbonate. Repeat the dose 12 hours later. This will slowly release bicarbonate into your bladder tissue.
3.Take AZO (pyridium) or Urised or other over-the-counter analgesics.
4.Experiment with ice packs or heating pads to see which helps bad. Put them between your ledgs and press the pad against your genitals.
5. Drink a lot of clear fluids to dilute your urine.
6.Avoid most fruits, fruit juices, coffeetea, tomatoes, vinegar, watermelon, anchovies, caviar, champagne chicken livers, chocolate, cold cuts, lima beans, artificual sweetner Aspartame (Nutra Sweet), pickles, pork, rye bread, soy sauce, wines, yogurt (I thought yogurt was good!) and others with acid. The handout says you will feel better in 24 hours if you follow all 6 points. DO NOT SMOKE! Smoking causes damaged blood vessels to narrow and decreases the amount of oxygen to sensitive tissues.
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