By Prof. Scott Glickman If a drug treatment for #cystitis is approved by a patient safety regulatory agency, without evidence that it can produce cure, who, if anyone, actually is, or should be responsible for an infection recurrence with it? I ask because I see no convincing evidence that any approved oral #antibiotic treatment has ever come with evidence that it reliably cures cystitis (i.e. produces pathogen annihilation). Of course, I see symptom recovery, but notwithst

Homeostatic mechanisms optimise our cellular chemistry. #antibiotics treatments are developed specifically to work in our narrow-band homeostatic chemical milieu to be delivered through blood to #infection sites for intimate combat with #bacterial invaders. With #cystitis, the bacteria are planktonic in urine and attached to urothelial cell membranes, so are too far away to be influenced by that approach. For #antibiotic tablets to have any chance to be effective against cy