IMPORTANT:Regarding alternative therapies

[MakinIT]

WAAAY back when I was first dx'd with this (in Sept) I was frantically searching for "cure". Another chat /message board kept recommending these vitamins that had a mixture of stuff in it especially for IC folks. One of the ingredients was Oregon Grape which is a natural antibiotic. I am so allergic to almost all antibiotics. I took this stuff and got so sick. Please, for everyone...Be very careful when you get anything that is a mixture of herbs/vitamins unless the person who put that mixture together for you is trained in naturapathic medicine, chinese medicine...whatever. One size doesn't fit all when we take these blends.

Take care.

[ICNDonna]

Oregon grapes are extremely acidic --- we have them growing on our property and I make jelly with them. I have to be very careful that I don't get too much pectin in them because of the acid. And I don't eat the jelly, but my family loves it.

Donna

[MakinIT]

Ah Donna, I luv ya...You can take lemons and make lemonade out of anything. Besides, you like the Ducks, so you gotta be a good person!

Tracey

(However, I won't be sampling those wares...it would make very sick!)