If you've ever had a UTI (and with 10 million doctor's visits per year in the U.S. just for this one thing, odds are you have) you'd do anything to prevent that shit from happening ever again in your life. Luckily, now there's a way to do that with a drink mix you don't even have to take every day, Tech Crunch reports.
Uqora, the magical-sounding pink lemonade-flavored drink that you mix with water and take within an hour after having sex or riding a bike or wearing spandex shorts or anything else that could cause a UTI, will cost $25 for 10 servings and you can order it on their website (and hopefully at every drug store in the future).
One of the founders, Spencer Gordon, says UTIs are caused by bacteria getting in the urinary tract and attaching to the walls of the urethra. He says Uqora is a supplement containing a special kind of sugar and a cocktail of vitamins and minerals that acts like a natural diuretic and may prevent that from happening, thereby sparing you a horrid round of antibiotics.
Plus, Gordon says, "Antibiotics are the only treatment for this infection, and they work well, but because they kill native populations of bacteria they can make you really vulnerable to other infections," and adds the more you take them, the less likely they are to work in the future.
Since it's a dietary supplement, it's not FDA regulated, but all the ingredients have been listed as safe by the FDA.
Fewer doctors visits and fewer UTIs? The future is now and it's great.
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