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Tuesday July 20, 2010

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 ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A EDITION!
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Are you one of those people who have reoccurring urinary tract infections? Do you have a habit that could be causing that and not know it? What happens when you take antibiotics for it? Today's answer will cover those questions and more.

Reminder: Take charge of your health today or it will take charge of you when you least expect it!

Don't forget to pass on the newsletter announcement to anyone you feel will read it.

I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of me as one!! My years observing life and health of the many people/patients around me and the contradictions of the traditional medical world's idea of treating - prescription domino effect - while watching and also taught those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more health problems than they help is where my answers are based. Those same conventional medical professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy or how to prevent illness. They can't as they haven't been taught healing, only putting a bandage on symptoms, which led me to look for something to change
that premise for myself and those around me who ask. In looking outside the Westernized medical profession I found and continue to find alternatives that really work to create health and longevity - when adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical world can do...

Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to... Even though I daily watch people become healthy with the information imparted here nothing works 100% of the time for 100% of people but it is a fact that when natural herbal/nutritional alternative health modes are used more than 80% can be cured or reverse health issues...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude
as well! 

Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

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QUESTION:
 
Hi Lena, I was very pleased to find you on the web....I really could use some guidance. I am treating a uti with Bactrim. I hate that I am doing this to my body...I feel like I am slowly killing myself! I am 57 and very healthy, and don't take any drugs at all but I panicked with this uti because I must travel next Week and need to be sure it's gone. but now I feel I made huge mistake and want stop taking it today (I've only taken 3 doses so far and feel no symptoms but I am afraid it is still lingering there. I was actually doing very well with herbs and d-mannos but I got to feeling better and ate some of the wrong foods and back it came....can you help me sort this out...I really don't want take any more of this drug. I have absolutely no appetite and can't eat much at all.

If I take an AZO test to see if it is gone ...can I trust that and then follow up treatment by rebuilding my immune system?
 
Thanks for your help and I look forward to you suggestions, Chris
 
 
ANSWER: 

Hi Chris, I can understand your concerns. 

Stopping an antibiotic after taking only a few is opening you up to a mega bacteria, so not good, but can be avoided with the following. When taking an antibiotic you should be taking a strong and really good Digestive Enzymes and Balanced Probiotics along with it. That is the greatest concern as the antibiotic kills 80% to 100% of your immune system making you susceptible to other illnesses! Of course my favorite and one I keep in my house is Digestive Enzyme Probiotic Proactivator... I know the balance of that formula and how much you need with that, but one you get elsewhere I could not give you that information.

If you do not use a sterile cup to do the AZO test you can get a false reading so I would not use that as a standard positive for UTI. But if you receive a negative test and still did not use a sterile cup you can be pretty sure you do not have a UTI but without a culture you cannot say 100% no. Also Bayer, the company who pays an East Indian company to make them, even admits that the AZO is wrong 25% of the time. With the drug company's cover up/lie factor I would guess it's twice that!

Here are some of the other factors to look for that could be causing your UTI.

- Have they actually confirmed a UTI by doing a culture? If not the symptoms can be from other sources... 

- At your age I question that you actually had a UTI for sure? As symptoms of burning pain and itching with urinating can be nothing more than hormone, testosterone, progesterone's bouncing around and can create those same symptoms. Sometimes those symptoms occur without urinating as well... No antibiotic needed then but balancing those hormones are necessary to change those symptoms. That would require balanced minerals and herbs that work to balance the reproductive system. - - Or if your thyroid isn't functioning completely you can have those same symptoms. Click and read the thyroid symptoms to determine if you have them. If one or more apply to your case then three things would need to be done.

a. balanced minerals.  Read "Mineral Uses" to understand why!

b. balanced woman formula for balancing reproductive system.

c. Thyroid Energy herbal/iodine capsules for balancing the thyroid. 

If those don't apply then;

1. Are you eating properly to give 80% of your immune system balance and strength,; digestive enzymes and probiotic balance? That means eating raw or lightly steamed vegetables and fruits daily as well as fermented foods. That does not mean alcohol drinks! Watch the sugar intake as an excess of sugar kills the digestive good bacteria opening you up to UTI! No artificial sugar substitutes as they do the same and even worse!!!!

2. Are you wearing panty hose and/or close fitting panties or Thong panties daily? Any one of those can create the perfect atmosphere to build a UTI if your digestive tract isn't functioning full strength.

3. Do you have bouts of diarrhea that can leak over into the vaginal area creating a UTI?

4. When you have a bowel movement do you wipe towards the front or back? Wiping towards the front, when the intestinal flora is weak can be a cause of a UTI.

5. Do you use a diaphragm for birth control or birth control pills? The diaphragm can carry bacteria and create a UTI. Birth control pills deplete the digestive tract's necessary probiotics and allows yeast to overgrow causing UTI's.

6. Do you douche? Douching kills the natural bacteria that will then allow invading bacteria to take over and then invade your urinary tract! So douching is a NO NO unless prescribed by a gastroenterologist of OB/GYN.

I know I did not exactly answer your question but this should give you some answers to help you decide what to do or not to do... Also keep Ionic Silver Water at your house so when you feel a virus or bacterial or fungal infection coming on you will have a natural antibiotic that will not affect the natural flora in your body.
Lena

Obese body shrinks brain!
 
Boston University School of Medicine Researchers used CT scans to check belly fat levels, and MRIs to check the brain volumes of 733 adults with an average age of 60. Nearly 70 percent of the patients were women. The researchers found that those with the highest BMIs (body mass index) had the lowest brain volumes, according to the study in the Annals of Neurology. In the new study, the link was strongest among those who had the most fat around the organs and gut -- abdominal fat, and the so-called "beer belly."
 

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A CHILD WITHIN US

It was an annual winter tradition. Every year we packed the children into our family car and spent the day at "The North Pole at Pike's Peak," a year-round Christmas resort not far away. And each year they took turns on Santa's lap while we snapped pictures.

This wasn't any ordinary Santa, either. Maybe it was the real beard. Or maybe it was the twinkle in his eye when he talked to the kids. He came as close to the genuine Santa as anyone I can imagine. The kindly old man worked as Santa Claus at the resort all year round and, for our family at least, he was just about the real thing.

One year, after we finished with pictures, I said to him, "You must really love children."

"Yes, I do," he said. "And adults, too. Many adults want to sit with Santa for a picture!"

"Do you really have adults visit Santa?" I asked in amazement.

"Oh, yes," he replied. "As a matter of fact, one day 14 of the first 20 people who came to visit Santa were adults. All of us have a child inside of us. It's a terrible thing when you lose that."

I think I know what he meant. Children are enthusiastic. They've not forgotten how to have fun. And they still feel awe and wonder and excitement.

"It's a terrible thing when you lose that," he said. I don't think he meant that we are to be childish and immature - just childlike. There is a difference.

To be childlike is to be fun-loving and ready to get lost in the present. To be childlike is to be more innocent and trusting. Quicker to embrace life and love. To be childlike is to not yet be jaded by the world or too cynical about people. Those who are childlike laugh easily and often. They know there is plenty about this universe they may not understand, and that is okay. In fact, mystery is good. It fills them with awe.

My children eventually grew up and quit visiting Santa. A few years later I learned that he passed away. As it turns out, even an almost-real Santa doesn't live forever. I had the honor of speaking at his funeral service and remembered him that day as a man who always kept his childlike sense of enthusiasm, love and joy. He was one of the youngest people I knew.


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