Citro-Soda Cranberry 60g

Citro-Soda is the pharmacy-counter standard for the burning, stinging urination of early cystitis. Its effervescent citrate and bicarbonate salts alkalinise the urine, taking the acid sting out of each trip to the bathroom while high fluid intake does the real work of flushing the bladder. It is symptom relief, honestly framed: it makes the wait for the body, or for antibiotics, bearable rather than treating infection itself, and it is also traditionally used to alkalinise urine in gout management. The cranberry 60g adds the cranberry flavour association to the alkaliniser; any true anti-adhesion benefit needs standardised PAC capsules, so sell the flavour as flavour.

The misery of cystitis is the burn, and the burn is acid urine passing over inflamed tissue. Changing the urine's pH gives relief within a few doses, which is exactly what you need while deciding whether this one is going to need a doctor. Having a tin at home also buys judgement time: symptoms that melt away in a day of alkaliniser and fluids are different from the ones that do not, and that difference is useful information.