[Gpdd] HEALTH: Barley Water, Take 2: Much Shorter!!!!

[pat schuett]

Hello again,

I didn't get any replies to my earlier message about cystitis and barley water, but I now realize that my original message was so long and boring that most of you had probably fallen asleep before reaching the end where the questions were!  I'd still like your opinions, so here is a much shorter version...

My piggie Olivia had a UTI which I treated with the traditional remedy of barley water and unsweetened cranberry juice with a tiny bit of honey.  The UTI cleared up, but I'm worried she might keep getting them if she doesn't start drinking more (and I've really really tried to find a kind of water she likes already, without success).  
So I've continued to give her a bowl of the barley water & cranberry mixture (with more water added to it) in her cage and at the moment, she is still drinking it quite well.  If this is the only way to get her to drink, do you think I should continue or not?  (All the material I've founded on barley water only talks about short-term use when the piggie actually has the UTI.)  THANK YOU!!!

                                         Pat
                                         (slave to Olivia, Doris & Audrey)




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