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MAJOR DIETARY IRRITANTS TO
THE URINARY TRACT
- All alcoholic beverages
- Cranberry Juice and/or Cranberries
- Lemon juice
- Carbonated drinks, especially colas
- Chillies/spicy foods, especially HOT ones
- Coffee
- Acidy foods (Coffee and colas, for example)
- Chocolate (sometimes)
Substitutions that you can make in your daily diet
- Coffee that has the acid removed. Kava and Rombouts are two brands found in
grocery stores.
- Herbal teas provided they don't contain large amounts of citrus. Weak tea:
dunk a tea bag in water four times quickly to colour the water.
- Ovaltine instead of chocolate drinks.
- Fruit juices: Apricot nectar, pear nectar and papaya juice.
- Late harvest dessert wines (low acid content).
- Fructose, as found in Superose instead of NutraSweet or Saccharine.
- Carob for chocolate in a recipe.
- Orange or lime peel scrapings for flavour. Do not use white part of rind.
Vitamins:
Vitamin C only calcium ascorbate co-buffered with calcium carbonate.
Vitamin E: take in powered form instead of oil capsules. The only B vitamin to
use is B6.
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