Drinking cranberry juice could help boost the antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs) against drug resistant bacteria, a new study has found.

Approximately half of all women in the UK will experience at least one UTI in their lifetime, causing pain or burning when urinating, a frequent need to wee and a high temperature.

Most UTIs are caused by pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli bacteria , and the antibiotic fosfomycin is often prescribed as the first line of treatment . But the rise of antibiotic resistance makes the infection more difficult to treat.

There is no evidence that cranberry juice alone can treat a UTI.…