A common herbal extract available in health food stores could potentially enhance the ability of antibiotics to kill the bacteria that cause 90 percent of infections in the bladder and can greatly reduce recurrence of urinary tract infections, according to a new study published the results online April 8, 2007, in the journal Nature Medicine. One of the problems with urinary tract infections is that the infections may return after treatments with antibiotics due to the fact that cells lining the ladder may shield the bacteria from being killed by antibiotics. In the study conducted in mice, researchers at Duke University Medical Center conducted a series of experiments and found that urinary tract infections can return and also forskalin can force out 75 percent of bacteria hosted in the cells. Forskalin is an extract from the Indian coleus plant. And it has been found in early studies that it can be used as a vasodilator, weight loss aid, a supplement to fight against glaucoma in addition to reduction of urinary tract infections and enhancement of the ability of antibiotics to kill bacteria that normally survive, according to wikipedia. Urinary tract infections in the bladders infect women four […]