Yes I know.
Everyone is recommending baking soda as a UTI home treatment especially for relief of the urinary tract symptoms.
Is this really the best option? I understand that it may have some symptomatic relief effect but that is not the whole story.
Read on and find out why you may be making yourself worse.
Bacteria may actually like baking soda Most helpful bacteria live in an acid environment.
As a matter of fact, most of the urinary tract needs to remain slightly acid to stay healthy.
Another example would be the vaginal tract in woman.
It needs to maintain an acid environment for bad germs not to cause trouble.
The colon is the same way and also the skin.
Baking soda is a substance that neutralizes acid.
One of the ways that can be used to determine if you have a urinary tract infection is by checking the PH or acidity of the urine.
If the urine is alkaline then there is a possibility of an infection being present.
Baking soda makes the urine alkaline and in some cases can aggravate urinary infections.
Herbs are more effective as a UTI Home Treatment Herbal remedies have been known for decades if not centuries to be really effective as a UTI Home treatment.
They have the capacity of cleaning the urinary tract and also of killing many germs in the urine that cause bladder infections.
They are also very fast in relieving the symptoms of urinary tract infections.
I really recommend that everybody learn the correct use of herbs as a UTI home treatment instead of using something that only gives relief.