Hibiscus and Reduced Symptomatic Urinary Tract Infection Episode

• Hibiscus extract, vegetable proteases and Commiphora myrrha are useful to prevent symptomatic UTI episode in patients affected by recurrent uncomplicated urinary tract infections.

  • 2018-09-30
  • Clinical Trial · n = 25
  • Archivio italiano di urologia, andrologia : organo ufficiale [di] Societa italiana di ecografia urologica e nefrologica 90(3)
  • • Tommaso Cai
    • Daniele Tiscione
    • Andrea Cocci
    • Marco Puglisi
    • Gianmartin Cito
    • Gianni Malossini
    • Alessandro Palmieri

  • PubMed: 30362679
  • DOI: 10.4081/aiua.2018.3.203

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Symptomatic Urinary Tract Infection Episode

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  At the end of the second follow-up evaluation, 25 women did not reported any symptomatic episode of UTI (49%), 18 reported less than 2 episodes (35.3%), while 8 reported more than 2 episodes (15.7%).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  1 tablet in the morning and 1 tablet in the evening for 7 days and, then, 1 tablet in the evening for 10 days (1 cycle every each month, for 6 months)