Influence of phytotherapy on bacterial adhesion in patients with chronic cystitis

The influence of prophylactic therapy has been studied in the patients with chronic сystitis in the remission stage using the tablets of dry extract of Arctostaphylos Uvae Ursi on bacterial adhesion. The use of phytomedicine decreases bacterial adhesion of uropathogens. After having taken phytopreparation and low doses of ciprofloxacin the reduce of the adhesiveness index and the adhesion coefficient were observed in the overwhelming majority of patients. On the contrary, in the dynamics of observation the decrease of these parameters was recorded only in 20% of the observed patients of the control group without a course of treatment. In 80% of patients who haven’t taken the phytopreparations, the significant parameters of adhesion remained, including 40% of patients whose parameter and adhesion coefficient increased. Such change in receptivity of cytomembranes to the adhesion of pathogenic flora points at the constant risk of the beginning the process of urinary tract infections in these patients.