Urinary Tract Infections in Military Women?

Cripes! Does anyone (other than those with an agenda) honestly think this keeps anyone from being able to fight effectively? Can we next keep people out of the military who get colds?

Now really! Issue everyone cranberry juice and stop quibbling.

Noddy:

Cranberry juice in the war with Iraq? Where would the women find this in the desert?

Same place they find their food?

New Haven - you say this is a rumour. On what is it based? How do you expect us to respond to a RUMOUR?

Statements made on Boston radio by military men, who don't believe that American women should be placed in combat roles.

Cranberry juice?

Why not take an antibiotic...It's the modern age!

well it seems pretty obvious to me that all women should be kept at home, in the kitchen, close to the cranberry juice.

Men have said that American women in the combat field would have to go for 7+ days without a shower. They ( medics ) have claimed that female anatomy makes women prone to UTIs , which could then disable women , thereby decreasing their efficiency on the battle field.


Did Jessica Lynch have a UTI?


Onw way to avoid UTIs for a woman in combat is to use alcohol wipes, when showers are not an option.


As far as carrying cranberry juice containers into combat, how could any soldier possibly carry anything more than what they're carrying?

dyslexia:

Why not keep American women in the cranberry bogs? Should be good for the cranberry industry.

not enough bogs

How about "layering" in the bog regions?

I'm now getting an ad on my screen asking me if I have a wristwatch rash!

im getting an ad that asks me if i want bigger boobs, go figure

Bigger boobs?

Why no ads for "boob reduction" on the internet?

Similar to "Cures for impotence" and never the reversal.

if you want to be impotent you have to look inpotent, thats why i always wear a tux.

people in good tuxes look potent to me.

There are cranberry capsules. antibiotics are portable too, but if women do indeed get more UTIs at war, why not ration out a couple cran-caps a day to stave it off. I think the biggest factor to UTIs is water consumption. I know that water is limited in Iraq....

I don't think showering has a whole lot to do with it.

littleK:

Has anyone run a study determining #UTIs/100 women for women who shower each day and those who shower 1X/week?

Cranberry juice is a diuretic. If you're a woman in combat in an isolated area without plumbing, would you really want to be taking a diuretic, especially when the enemy is shooting at you?