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urinary system
urethritis
nutrition
dietary guidelines
eating principles:
» acute :
increase fluids
short fruit or vegetable juice fast
» chronic:
elimination/rotation diet, rotation diet, rotation diet expanded
therapeutic foods:
foods rich in Vitamin A, B-complex, and E
all Cooling and diuretic foods, foods that clear Heat
watermelon (including seeds), pears, carrots, pomegranate, celery, corn, mung beans, cornsilk tea, squash, wheat, water chestnuts, barley, red beans, millet, grapes, strawberries, lotus roots, loquat (Ni, p. 112)
apples, asparagus, liquid chlorophyll, parsley, green leafy vegetables, mango, nectarines (Jensen, p. 63)
fresh juices:
pomegranate (Jensen, p. 63)
cranberry
celery and pomegranate (Jensen, p. 63)
grape juice fast (Brandt)
carrot, beet, and cucumber (Walker, p. 125)
carrot and spinach (Walker, p. 125)
carrot (Walker, p. 135)
carrot, beet, and cucumber (Walker, p. 135)
carrot, celery, and parsley (Walker, p. 135)
carrot and parsley (Walker, p. 135)
avoid:
food intolerances
hot sauces, spicy foods, fried foods, fatty foods, rich foods, salty foods, coffee, caffeine, sweet foods and sugar, cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, refined foods, processed foods
heavy proteins, meat, dairy products, onions, scallions, ginger, black pepper, alcohol (Ni, p. 112)
supplements
» drug interactions:
Vitamin K and cephalosporins [cefuroxime (Ceftin), cephalexin (Cefanex, Keflet, Keflex, Keftab), cefixime (Suprax), cephadroxil (Duricef, Ultracef), cephaclor (Ceclor)]:
- cephalosporins interfere with Vitamin K metabolism, sometimes leading to hemmorhage (Anonymous, 1984; 42 (4): 162-163)
- cephalosporins reduce Vitamin K synthesis by destroying the colonic bacteria responsible for that process
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