Whats a good way to determine what I need as a maintenance/prophylactic dose?
Our suggestion: if when you take your first dose or two of Waterfall D-Mannose, you find that your urine is smelly or cloudy – that is a fairly obvious sign that there could be E.coli attached to your bladder, and you should use treatment level until at least you finish one pack. If instead your urine is clear and not smelly, you are probably safe just to take one spoonful a day as a maintenance dose. If despite the maintenance you feel something starting, immediately take a heaped teaspoonful, and 1 hour later take another. 99 times out of 100 that will prevent it from flaring up into a full blown infection. However, the fact that it started would be enough to indicate that you should thereafter increase your maintenance dose. On the other hand, if you are taking, say, three level teaspoonsful a day, and you remain free of cystitis for a month or so, it’s probably safe to cut down to two a day, and if that keeps you clear, you could then cut down to one a day, and so on. It’s not ‘one
