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Syd (New Mexico) on 08/20/2020
5 out of 5 stars

I get HORRIBLE cystitis when I eat high oxalate foods. It took me a while to figure it out. (I had FOUR tests that showed I had no infection, so I figured that it must be something, and then I came upon oxalates. I was having spinach smoothies every morning, plus lots of almond butter, and when I stopped those the cystitis went away. (You have to stop slowly or you'll "dump" a lot of oxalates and that is horrible.) every time I tried to reintroduce oxalates to test this, the cystitis came back.

Oxalates certainly may not be an issue for everyone, but it's useful to rule out.

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Replied By Wendy (Dublin, OH) on 08/20/2021

I have been UTI free for the past nine months, and then this morning I got a major one! I'm so glad you posted about high oxalate foods, because guess what I had last night? 3 cups of steamed organic beets! And, beets are a high oxalate food. Now I know!
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Replied By Elsa (New Zealand) on 02/11/2023

You are certainly right, Syd. Almonds and spinach are oxalates foods Not all superfoods are beneficial for us.
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