Urine infections can be treated with simple pill that doctors won't prescribe - Daily Mail

The tablet - methenamine hippurate - sidesteps increasingly common problems with traditional antibiotic treatments that can damage the liver and kidneys or become useless in the face of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Thousands of people suffering with agonising and recurring bladder infections are missing out on a simple antiseptic treatment that wipes out the bacteria in urine. The tablet methenamine hippurate … [+6673 chars]

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