Cranberry tablets
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Is it possible that cranberry tablets are giving me diarrhoea?
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Taking 1 most days (about 5 per week).
Cranberry's don't stick out as being a cause of diarrhea in my mind, but then again, I'm not a doctor.
If you have a medical issue which is bothering you, and for which you don't know the cause the best thing to do would be to see a doctor.
The only contra thing I can think of with cranberry tablets or cranberry juice for that matter is they have mild blood-thinning properties so you shouldn't take / drink cranberry products if you are due an op or already on blood thinning medication.
E2a: and even that information appears to be out-of-date according to this article from mid-2013.
http://www.ptinr.com/warfarin-you/news-stories/cranberry-warfarin-ok-together
If you are eating plenty of fruit and veg, you might need a bit more fibre. Try some jacket potatoes weekly, and a sprinkle of All Bran on your porridge.
Certainly as someone said, if the runs last more than a short few days, ask the doctor - you can ask for a phone chat to save both of you time. This is not because it might be serious, it is just the thing to say when a person is bothered about their health.
Stop taking them and find out. I'm sure they weren't prescribed by a doctor so they aren't necessary.
Beetroot juice can help to lower blood pressure due to its high nitrate content, but I think there are very few other such pills and potions that have anything more than a placebo effect.
Some of them must have some kind of active ingredient, but often not beneficial.
Grapefruit juice has the strange ability to make many medicines more speedily absorbed, so that you get too much of the effect over a short period of time.
St John's Wort can make you over sensitive to sunlight and cause rashes.
Cranberry tablets probably just give you an overdose of Vitamin C, which is often associated with diarrhoea.
Thanks for this and to everyone else for the helpful advice, really appreciate it.
I got the pills from the doctor and have an appointment next week so will mention the (suspected) side effect then. I´ve been taking them for about 4 or 5 months with positive effects apart from the occasional diarrhoea, which seems to have become more frequent.
Yes, it's a known side effect.
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My sister was told to take a daily Cranberry supplement by a hospital physiotherapist treating her bladder condition. (Her GP had referred her to a gynaecologist, who referred her to the physiotherapist; both GP and gynaecologist fully support their use, particularly when improvements were noted). The GP had already prescribed an antimuscarinic drug, and the physiotherapist highly recommended the cranberry tablet in addition.
Buying foreign drugs off random websites on the internet is a huge mistake. You can never be sure what exactly is in them, and subsequently, how you will react to them. I get supermarket own brand cranberry tablets for my sister. The physiotherapist who recommended them warned us not to get them off the internet (unless it's via your supermarket's online grocery service of course). Tesco & Asda both do them. If you're still intolerant to them, at least you'll know it's the cranberry and not some random dodgy ingredient that shouldn't be there.
The medical profession isn't as blinkered as some posters on DS appear to be... but no surprises there.
Re the buying from overseas websites: in general, I agree with you but I wondered if the OP might be resident in Spain and therefore it would make sense using a Spanish website which, for all I know, might be a Holland & Barratt equivalent. But that was only vague conjecture on my part.
Or that most customers for herbal supplements and remedies are female?
* until they're 60+ when incidence of UTIs in men starts to increase with age
Yes, I get them on prescription.
I don´t buy them from the internet, I just googled the brand I´m prescribed to show the other posters which ones I take. I collect them from a pharmacy about 200m. from my house.
Thanks very much! I did not know that.