Bladder Infections and Urinary Tract Infection CureWritten by Marguerite Palmeri
What is a urinary tract infection (UTI)? A UTI is an infection anywhere in urinary tract.* Your urinary tract includes organs that collect and store urine and release it from your body. They are kidneys ureters bladder urethra Kidney. Your kidneys collect wastes and extra water from your blood to make urine. Ureter. The ureters carry urine from your kidneys to your bladder. Bladder. Your bladder stores urine and squeezes it out when full. Urethra. The urethra carries urine out of your bladder when you urinate. Prostate. The prostate adds fluid to semen.What causes a UTI? Usually, a UTI is caused by bacteria that can also live in digestive tract, in vagina, or around urethra, which is at entrance to urinary tract. Most often these bacteria enter urethra and travel to bladder and kidneys. Usually, your body removes bacteria, and you have no symptoms. However, some people seem to be prone to infection, including women and older people. Normal urine is sterile. It contains fluids, salts, and waste products, but it is free of bacteria, viruses, and fungi. An infection occurs when microorganisms, usually bacteria from digestive tract, cling to opening of urethra and begin to multiply. Most infections arise from one type of bacteria, Escherichia coli (E. coli), which normally lives in colon. In most cases, bacteria first begin growing in urethra. An infection limited to urethra is called urethritis. From there bacteria often move on to bladder, causing a bladder infection (cystitis). If infection is not treated promptly, bacteria may then go up ureters to infect kidneys (pyelonephritis). Microorganisms called Chlamydia and Mycoplasma may also cause UTIs in both men and women, but these infections tend to remain limited to urethra and reproductive system. Unlike E. coli, Chlamydia and Mycoplasma may be sexually transmitted, and infections require treatment of both partners. The urinary system is structured in a way that helps ward off infection. The ureters and bladder normally prevent urine from backing up toward kidneys, and flow of urine from bladder helps wash bacteria out of body. In men, prostate gland produces secretions that slow bacterial growth. In both sexes, immune defenses also
| | Choosing a Hair Loss RemedyWritten by Karen Brown
For those persons dealing with issue of hair loss, it may be a daunting task to choose a hair loss remedy. For various reasons individuals may have difficulty in choosing which treatment will work. Sometimes, those individuals try multiple remedies to try to find one that works. In order to choose right hair loss remedy, those individuals need to follow a few steps. First of all, persons experiencing hair loss need to determine why they are losing hair before deciding on treatment. After determining cause, next action may occur. Looking at various reasons, there are different types of hair loss remedies to choose. A brief list of causes are heredity, aging, high stress, poor nutrition, hormonal changes, and so on. All of these causes create same effect – hair loss – however, they may need to be treated in different ways. After assessing cause of hair loss, individuals need to research possible treatments to discern best hair loss remedy. Depending on situation, different treatments will work in different ways, or not at all. Thus why those individuals need to know cause of hair loss to begin. When choosing a hair loss remedy, individuals have options of herbal and vitamin supplements, oral pills, hair transplants, and so forth. Another remedy for hair loss could be avoiding harmful situations, such as high stress, too much hair chemicals, and poor grooming and nutrition. All of these factors may contribute to hair loss, and therefore, to remedy situation, individuals would want to avoid these.
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