Drink lots of unsweetened cranberry juice, you chicken-eating women! =============================== Seriously, I believe that the Big Poultry and Big Meat industries do overuse antibiotics to the point where they are creating super bugs, which then get into the environment. However, I don't think there is a direct link between eating chicken and getting bladder infections. ========================================== Reason: 1. Thoroughly cooking chicken and meat destroys E. coli. And, the e-coli would have been in the chicken's gut and cloaca, which are removed at the processing plant. If there is E. coli ON the raw chicken, it more probably came from the hands of a human being who did not wash his/her hands after using the toilet. E. coli is found in the human gut. =============================================== 2. Most women who get bladder infections, do so because when they wipe after "going," they tend to wipe from back to front. ============================================== How does that cause a bladder infection? Because when you wipe from back to front, you can be bringing fecal material from your rear to your urethra (the "tube" that leads to the bladder in both women and men). Fecal material contains E. coli -- whatever strains of it that are in your gut, will end up in your poop. If you wipe poop forward into your urethra -- voila! -- you get E. coli in your urethra and it can travel up the tube and into your bladder, and you can get an infection there. ============================= Men don't tend to get bladder infections because their urethras are conveniently located far away from their bodies, so poop doesn't usually get into it.
================================== Women can avoid problems with their bladder by wiping from FRONT to BACK. It's that simple. ===================================== Happy to provide this Public Service Announcement (teehee). But seriously, I do believe that antibiotics are far too frequently and vastly overused and abused, both by the meat/poultry industries, individuals, and even in the medical field. It can't bode well for the long run.
