Home remedies · Cycle & women’s health
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
As unsweetened juice or a preparation daily over months — not as treatment of an acute infection.
Certain substances in cranberry make it harder for bacteria to stick to the bladder wall. For women with recurring infections a modest preventive benefit is described.
An existing infection is not treated by it — with fever or flank pain get seen the same day.
With warfarin-type blood thinners talk to your doctor. Sweetened juice delivers a lot of sugar and little benefit.
Have it assessed: bleeding outside the cycle or after the menopause, strong one-sided lower abdominal pain, fever with discharge, any new lump in the breast. In pregnancy almost anything is a reason to call. With mastitis and fever, do not wait longer than a day.