title: Complementary and integrative therapies for lower urinary tract diseases.
abstract: Consumer use of integrative health care is growing, but evidence-based research on its efficacy is limited. Research of veterinary lower urinary tract diseases could be translated to human medicine because veterinary patients are valuable translational models for human urinary tract infection and urolithiasis. An overview of complementary therapies for lower urinary tract disease includes cranberry supplements, mannose, oral probiotics, acupuncture, methionine, herbs, or herbal preparations. Therapies evaluated in dogs and cats, in vitro canine cells, and other relevant species, in vivo and in vitro, are presented for their potential use as integrative therapies for veterinary patients and/or translational research.
authors.affiliation: Integrative Medicine, Nutrition Service, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 2407 River Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. Electronic address: draditic@utk.edu.
authors.forename: Donna M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Raditic
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D002415:Cats; D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000379:methods / Q000662:veterinary*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D004285:Dogs; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000628:therapy / Q000662:veterinary*
keywords: Complementary and alternative medicine; Herbs; Integrative medicine; Lower urinary tract disease (LUTD); Supplement; Urinary tract infection; Urinary tract tumor; Urolithiasis