Urinary Tract Infections in Women: From Simple to Complex - An Integrative Approach

Urinary tract infections are often straight forward with natural treatments being very successful, especially acute uncomplicated infections. Chronic, complicated, recurring, can require expanded special testing, vaginal estrogen, and waning use of prophylactic antibiotics. A review of the evidence of the botanicals, the use of vaginal estrogen, prophylactic pharmaceutical and natural medicine case management will be the hallmarks of this presentation

Learning Objectives

• Understand the basic etiologies of acute and chronic UTIs in women
• Identify when to use antibiotics and how to start without them
• Know the top botanical/nutraceutical evidence based options for acute and chronic/recurring UTS
• Know how to use vaginal estrogen to reduce recurrence