What types of bacteria is Waterfall D-Mannose not very effective against?
It does not appear to be effective against Enterococcus, Streptococcus, the Proteus family, or Pseudomonas – a minority of urinary tract infection agents that you are more likely to pick up if, for example, you have recently been for an investigation in hospital, or if you are very immune compromised and have an indwelling catheter. Proteus and the Pseudomonas don’t rely completely on mannose attachment, so whilst the product appears to work to some extent against Proteus Mirabilis, (but we think not against Proteus Vulgaris), and Waterfall D-Mannose seems to help prevent it from doing so much damage as normal, (from the fact that customers report that it feels better temporarily) it doesn’t seem to completely get rid of it. People say of P.Mirabilis, it ‘keeps coming back as soon as I ease back on the Waterfall D-Mannose ‘. Antibiotics, unfortunately, may be the only solution, although Proteus bacteriuria are very antibiotic resistant.
That Waterfall D-Mannose works at all on these, may be because the Proteus family also has some minor mannose attachment mechanism. We think the d-mannose interferes with the attachment mechanism in the same way as it does with E.coli and Klebsiella, but because the bacteria can swarm in the mucous membrane of the bladder, and are not reliant on mannose in the same way as E.coli, Klebsiella, and Salmonella, they are harder to flush away.
However, customers have said that Waterfall D-Mannose does seem to prevent almost all bladder infections when taken as a prophylactic. Very few people who take it long-term as a preventative measure ever get Proteus infections, Pseudomonas infections, or any other urinary infections.,