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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

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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


footnotes