Urinary tract infection affects more than half of women. But “it would be enough” to drink enough pure to significantly reduce your risk, reveals this study from the UT Southwestern Medical Center. Thus, women in the “hydration” group had 48% fewer bladder infections than those who drank their usual volume of water. But beware, it was still a question of consuming an additional 1.5 liters of water per day...
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A few reminders: more than 25% of women have a secondary infection within 6 months of an initial infection and 44 to 77% will suffer from a recurrence within a year. Symptoms of acute cystitis, a type of urinary tract infection (UTI), include painful or difficult urination, feeling of full bladder, feeling of urgency or frequent need to urinate, tenderness in lower abdomen and possibly blood in the urine.
Doctors hypothesized that drinking more fluids could help eliminate bacteria and limit their ability to attach to the bladder. With the objective of reducing the prescription of antibiotics and better controlling antibiotic resistance. The controlled trial asked participants in the intervention group to drink 1.5 liters of water, or 6 large glasses, in addition to their usual consumption.
- The main result is a 48% reduction in the incidence of bladder infections in this group, vs controls;
- 93% of women in the intervention group had 2 or fewer episodes of cystitis;
- 88% of women in the control group experienced 3 or more episodes;
- the incidence of cystitis is halved in the intervention vs. control group;
- 327 episodes of cystitis were recorded, including 111 in the intervention group and 216 in the control group;
- the estimated mean annual number of antimicrobial treatments used to treat episodes of cystitis was 1.9 in the intervention group vs. 3.6 in the control group;
- the mean time interval between episodes of cystitis was 142.9 days in the intervention group vs. 85.2 days in the control group;
- the median time before the first episode of cystitis is 148 days in the intervention group, against 93.5 days in the control group.
Very significant results, notes the main author, Dr. Lotan, head of the urological oncology department, especially since urinary tract infection is one of the most common infections in women.
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