Vitamin C and Reduced Urinary Tract Infection

• Literature Review of Ascorbic Acid, Cranberry, and D-mannose for Urinary Tract Infection Prophylaxis in Older People.

  • 2023-08-01
  • Review · n = 24
  • The Senior care pharmacist 38(8)
  • • Grace Song
    • Mira Koro
    • Vivian Leung
    • Gabriel Loh

  • PubMed: 37496168
  • DOI: 10.4140/tcp.n.2023.315

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Urinary Tract Infection

  • Low evidence
  • Clinical

  The authors determined that there were limited data for D-mannose and vitamin C, and randomized data for cranberry as defined by the classification system.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No