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If you need to treat a urinary tract infection (UTI) and your options are limited, try this awesome reflexology trick to clear it.
If you just need the reflexology instructions, skip down to the reflexology instructions.
#1. Drink water
Get a big bottle of water and start drinking. Don’t stop until your infection is gone, at the end of the process. Drinking all this water has a two-fold action:
- It constantly flushes the bacteria away
- It provides the clues you need as your treatment starts to work
- It diminishes that strange shivery ache and burning when you pee
Once your reflexology treatment starts to work, you will notice a change in how it feels to pee. When you can pee properly again, like really properly, you can stop.
This is your measuring stick of how your treatments are working. It usually takes about 10 minutes of working on your feet for you to start noticing the difference when you pee. KEEP GOING!
#2. Relax, you’re in for the long haul
Plop yourself down on the toilet, bath or an outside chair with a hose and settle in. If it’s really cold or too many other people need the bathroom, swap this for a hot bath you can pee in, or even a towel on a large plastic bag if you were really desperate. Whatever you choose, you want to pee as if you had on a nappy, whenever you need to.
This is a mere comfort factor, because getting up and down all the time is annoying, and wiping yourself with toilet paper all the time can make your poor vulva a bit raw, adding to the discomfort. Don’t wipe. It’s fine. Just sit and dribble to your heart’s content. Nobody needs to know.
#3. The reflexology foot treatment for UTI
Get one foot in your hands and start working on your bladder, ureters and kidney points. If you aren’t able to just use your thumbs, an eraser, or rounded, proddy object will do. Push in deep and firm. The most tender, sore spots are the bits you need to focus on. Reflexology is truly a classic no pain, no gain scenario.
KEY: You will push on spots on these points (which will hurt your foot) that will ease the UTI sensation in your urethra for as long as you push on it, like a magic button. Hold – bad feeling goes away – release – bad feeling comes back. Try it.
You’ll need to hold for about five seconds for the sensation to disappear/appear. This sensation of disappearing, then returning when you let go, is a real one. This is how you know you’ve got the right spots.
Keep working these areas, and the areas on the foot map. As you work these areas, the feeling will continue to abate until it disappears for good (in theory).
If you can feel anything at all when you pee that is abnormal, keep going – you’re not done. When you can pee freely and without issue, you’re done.
Drink plenty of water throughout the day and keep your eye on things. Sometimes in severe cases this process can take a little longer, but that is unusual. Persist!
Warning: If there is blood or severe pain, please go to the emergency room or see a doctor.
