Sources: [Archives of Internal Medicine]
Bottom line: Antibiotics are more likely to reduce the number of infections you get than cranberry capsules. However, antibiotics do have a downside, and you may prefer to try cranberries to see if they work for you.
There is some evidence that drinking cranberry juice or taking cranberry capsules may help reduce the chances of getting a UTI. But, until now, there hasn’t been research to show whether cranberries work as well as antibiotics.
In a good-quality study (a randomized controlled trial), 221 women who had frequent UTIs took either cranberry capsules or antibiotics every day for a year. At the end of the study, the average number of infections for women taking cranberry capsules was four, compared with two for women taking antibiotics. ……….
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