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You may not know exactly how much cranberry extract they contain or what else is in them. It can also keep bacteria overgrowth down there in check.
If you do have bacteria in your urine even without symptoms or you have a UTI, antibiotics are the first line of treatment. Without treatment, a bacterial infection in the bladder can lead to serious complications including a kidney infection. Go to all your pregnancy check-ups and tell your doctor about any UTI symptoms you might have, right away. Prenatal nutrition can be confusing. This article explains which supplements are believed to be safe during pregnancy and which ones you should avoid.
Drinking cranberry juice might offer health benefits. UTI prevention involves things like changing your bathroom habits, drinking lots of fluid, urinating before and after sex, and more.
There are also…. Cranberry pills can provide the health benefits of cranberries without having to eat them everyday. Here are the potential health benefits of…. There were no cases of cardiac malformations among the women who used cranberry during early pregnancy. Among the women who had used cranberry during the first trimester only, there were 11 9. However, sub-analyses with first trimester exposures only revealed no increased risk of overall malformations adjusted OR 1.
The 11 cases of infants born with malformations after exposure to cranberry in the first trimester were scrutinized data not shown. No specific pattern of malformations was revealed. The five cases of serious malformations were two cases of hypospadias, two cases of macrocephaly and one case of congenital deformity of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The other cases which were not classified as serious malformations were four cases of congenital dislocation and other deformities of the hip 3 cases and feet 1 case , one case of ankyloglossia and one case of undescended testicle.
Adjusted for maternal age, parity, pre-pregnancy BMI, level of education, maternal smoking, folic acid use, UTI, previous miscarriages or stillbirths, maternal mother tongue and year of delivery. Sub-analyses stratifying on timing of use were performed. The obtained adjusted ORs did not reveal any significant associations with the selected pregnancy outcomes by isolating cranberry exposure in early or late pregnancy data not shown.
In stratified analyses according to use of antibiotics against UTI Table 4 , adjusted ORs did not indicate any increased risk of the investigated pregnancy outcomes for the two groups of women: 1 women who had been exposed to cranberry, UTI and antibiotics and 2 women who had been exposed to cranberry and UTI, but not to antibiotics. Crude results detected an increased risk for SGA-infants among the women who had been exposed to cranberry, UTI without use of antibiotics.
However, further sub-analyses with adjustment for potential confounding factors were performed with women exposed to UTI without any treatment and women exposed to UTI, antibiotics and no cranberry, revealing no increased risk for having a SGA-infant adjusted OR 1.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the risk of malformations after use of cranberry during pregnancy. These results are in agreement with the safety findings of a prior pilot study of the efficacy for the prevention of ASB in pregnancy showing no differences between the cranberry groups and the control group with regard to obstetric or neonatal pregnancy outcomes [ 28 ].
However, we did find an increased risk of vaginal bleeding occurring after pregnancy week 17 among the women who used cranberry during late pregnancy. This association was no longer significant after adjustment was made.
Previous studies have indicated an interaction between cranberry and warfarin [ 20 , 32 , 33 , 44 ]. The mechanism of the interaction remains elusive, and different mechanisms are mentioned in the literature [ 32 , 33 , 44 ]. Cranberry contains significant amounts of salicylic acid, and might increase the risk of bleeding through its capacity to inhibit platelet aggregation [ 20 , 32 , 45 ]. On the contrary, others state that salicylic acid does not share the antiplatelet effect of acetylsalicylic acid [ 44 , 46 ].
Another biologically plausible mechanism of action has been proposed by Abdul et al. However, the authors did not find any significant independent effect on the clotting system when cranberry was administered alone during the pre-treatment period. Consequently, a clear explanation of the findings with regards to bleeding in this current study is difficult to obtain, but it cannot be completely ruled out that use of cranberry during pregnancy might increase the risk of maternal vaginal bleeding.
In the current study, the doses and form of administration were unknown. Vaginal bleeding was self-reported and included spotting in addition to more severe bleeding incidents.
We did not find a statistically significant association between use of cranberry during early pregnancy and maternal vaginal bleeding, or between use of cranberry during late pregnancy and more severe bleeding outcomes such as vaginal bleeding more than spotting after pregnancy week 17 and hospitalization due to vaginal bleeding after pregnancy week These findings are reassuring. Nevertheless, a non-significant trend was seen between use of cranberry during late pregnancy and vaginal bleeding more than spotting after pregnancy week Consequently, maternal vaginal bleeding is something that should be explored in later studies with respect to administration form and dosage.
There was no increased risk of malformations in general, major malformations or cardiac malformations among the women who had used cranberry during early pregnancy. However, there was an increase in the proportion of malformations in general in the group of women who had ingested cranberry during the first trimester.
Reassuringly, adjusted analyses showed no significantly increased risk for either malformations in general or for major malformations. Furthermore, the malformations varied in nature and did not reveal any clear pattern. Of note, the women who used cranberry were more likely to be primiparous, to have a college education, and less likely to smoke daily. These findings are in accordance with studies characterizing the users of complementary and alternative medicine in general [ 3 , 6 , 47 , 48 ].
Additionally, the association between use of cranberry and use of folic acid is in agreement with prior results showing an association between the use of herbs during pregnancy and use of multivitamins [ 49 ]. More women who used cranberry gave birth during the period to compared to the period to This observation mirrors the frequent use of CAM seen during the recent years in the general population in many Western countries [ 50 - 52 ].
The proportion of women who report treatment with antibiotics in relation to UTI Pregnant women are previously found to overestimate the risk of medicines [ 53 , 54 ], which may explain this finding. Furthermore, a considerable proportion of the women who used cranberry reported to have experienced a UTI during pregnancy, and many of these women did not report use of antibiotics against this condition. Of note, this group had ORs above 1 for five out of six outcomes shown in Table 4 , which may be explained by improper treatment of UTI and the possible harmful effect of UTI on several pregnancy outcomes as suggested by previous studies.
However, the adjusted ORs did not show any significant results. However, adjusted analyses and further sub-analyses as previously described did not find any association. This is in accordance with Schieve et al. Nevertheless, cranberry should not be used to treat UTIs because there is no scientific evidence to support this use [ 25 ].
Pyelonephritis is a serious medical complication of pregnancy and a common reason for hospitalization during pregnancy [ 9 , 56 ]. However, antibiotic treatment of ASB is seen to reduce the incidence of pyelonephritis and the incidence of low birth weight infants [ 11 , 17 ], implying the importance of proper treatment of this condition during pregnancy. This study has several strengths and limitations. The main strength of the study is the large sample size of the cohort.
The risk of recall bias was reduced as a consequence of the prospective nature of data collection in the first two questionnaires completed by the women during pregnancy. However, as the third questionnaire was completed 6 months after giving birth, there might be some recall bias.
This could only occur among the 69 women who reported cranberry use between completion of the second questionnaire and delivery in the third questionnaire. This represents 7. Additionally, the vast variety of information on socio-demographic data and pregnancy-related variables, derived from both the detailed MoBa-questionnaires and MBRN, enabled controlling for important potentially confounding factors while performing multivariate analyses on the association between use of cranberry during pregnancy and the selected adverse pregnancy outcomes including malformations.
MBRN has been shown to have satisfactory accuracy, as reported by different validation studies [ 57 , 58 ]. Still, it cannot be ruled out that there is a possibility of under-reporting of minor malformations is likely to occur, especially among early stillbirths.
A limitation of MoBa is the low response rate, which may give rise to selection bias. Though minor differences in prevalence estimates are seen between the participants in MoBa and the general population, risk estimates have been shown to be valid for the MoBa data set [ 59 ]. Another limitation of the study is that MoBa is based upon self-reporting. Therefore, information on use of cranberry and the diagnosis UTI may not be complete as the medical diagnosis of ASB or symptomatic bacteriuria have not been confirmed.
Additionally, the doses and administration forms were not available. The total daily dose, duration of treatment, frequency of treatment and adjunct herbals ingested along with cranberry are therefore uncertain. Furthermore, we did not include dietary intake of cranberry products i. Lastly, though it is the largest study identified to investigate the safety of cranberry, there were few cases with malformations.
In conclusion, because of the widespread use of cranberry during pregnancy, the results of this study are of clinical relevance. Even though there is no clear scientific evidence to support the use of cranberry either for the prevention of, or in the treatment of UTIs, pregnant women will probably continue to use this herb because of the long-term history of its use.
However, maternal vaginal bleeding should be investigated further before any firm conclusions can be drawn. Although pregnant women should be strongly encouraged to use antibiotics against any detected urinary tract infection, cranberry does not appear to be a harmful adjunctive self-therapy with regards to our data and the pregnancy outcomes studied.
KH performed and interpreted the statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript. HN participated in the design of the study, contributed assistance regarding performing and interpreting the statistical analyses, and revised the manuscript critically. LH participated in the design of the study, helped to interpret the results from the statistical analyses and revised the manuscript critically. All authors participated in the review of all herbal products for cranberry as an ingredient and read and approved the final manuscript.
The focus of her research is medication use and safety during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The focus of her research is herbal medicine use and safety during pregnancy. Did you know that chronic inflammation is to blame for conditions like diabetes, allergies, auto-immune, and heart diseases?
First Cry Parenting , however, points out that cranberries can help treat inflammations. These small berries are rich in antioxidants. The antioxidants protect your cells from radical cells during pregnancy.
A post shared by Aaron Cleveland aaronclevelandphotography. Pregnant women have low immunity. Luckily, cranberries can help improve their immune system. These berries have proanthocyanidins that help build your immunity. Besides, they prevent harmful bacteria from developing in your gut.
Eating cranberries during pregnancy will help you grow good bacteria to fight illnesses and infections. You are at risk of developing tooth problems during pregnancy. Pregnancy hormones make you susceptible to gingivitis. However, eating several cranberries a day can help with your dental hygiene.
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