The Study of Cranberry Products Use among Elderly Women with Urinary Tract Infection: a scoping review
LIN, CHENXU (2024)
2024
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Introduction: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) rank among the most prevalent bacterial infections among elderly women, the present treatment of urinary tract infection is mainly antibiotics, while it can cause serious antibiotics resistance, thus, it’s important to find another alternative therapy. The aim of this scoping review was to synthesis the evidence to explore what is the outcome of cranberry used for urinary tract infection among elderly women?
Results: The current evidence indicated that cranberry products decreased the incidence of the UTI number and symptom, and it can be also possible to reduce the antibiotics use with low side effect among elderly women, furthermore, it can improve the well-being of patients with UTI. However, some of the results should be interpreted with caution because of the limited number of studies and low compliance of some of the selected studies.
Conclusion: Cranberry has positive outcome used for the UTI prevention and treatment, in terms of the benefits for the reduction of the incidence of UTI number and symptom, low side effects and improve in the of well-being of patients with UTI.
Results: The current evidence indicated that cranberry products decreased the incidence of the UTI number and symptom, and it can be also possible to reduce the antibiotics use with low side effect among elderly women, furthermore, it can improve the well-being of patients with UTI. However, some of the results should be interpreted with caution because of the limited number of studies and low compliance of some of the selected studies.
Conclusion: Cranberry has positive outcome used for the UTI prevention and treatment, in terms of the benefits for the reduction of the incidence of UTI number and symptom, low side effects and improve in the of well-being of patients with UTI.