Natural treatment for over active bladder
- Drink at least 1 liter of boiled or distilled water everyday. You can also drink unsweetened cranberry and blueberry juice. Avoid tea, coffee, spices, fried and oily foods, sugars, carbonated drinks, alcohol, any form of syrups, white flour, junk food and processed foods. Discontinue eating those foods to which you are allergic.
- Eat non-citrus fruits, fresh and seasonal vegetables, poultry products, fish and lean meat. Include organic foods, vitamin A, beta carotene, vitamin C, acidophilus and zinc in your diet as these are very effective in treating bladder infection.
- Add 2 tsp of mannose powder to 1 glass of filtered water and drink it every 2 or 3 hours.
- Parsley, corn silk, buchu, couch grass, marshmallow leaf and goldenseal are the herbs which are very helpful in stabilizing an over active bladder.
- Take hot and cold sitz baths alternatively once a day.
- Every time after intercourse urinate when the bladder is full.
- Do not stop drinking water and never suppress the urge to urinate.
- Get the plant of the flower called 'viola'. Grow it in your home and make tea from its flower petals and leaves and drink it everyday.
- In a jar put a handful of crushed pumpkin seeds and pour boiling water over it. Let it steep for sometime and then strain it. Drink a little everyday till you find relief.
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