how do I naturally treat a yeast infection?
I almost positive i have a yeast infection, but i want to treat it naturally. I heard that using yogurt will help, any other suggestions? Would antibiotic cream work?
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antibiotics wont work against a yeast infection, because that’s a fungal infection—people say that yogurt works but it doesnt. It’s nasty and messy (think about it!).
Just go to the drugstore and pop for the over the counter stuff, you can get generic for 10$ or so.
Fresh air and sunlight, if you can find a private place…
Don’t use antibiotic cream – it can make a yeast infection worse! Yeast infections are caused by a fungus. Antibiotic creams only work against bacteria. There are actually some kinds of "good" bacteria living in your vagina that help keep the yeast fungus under control. In fact, the last time I had a yeast infection, it developed because I was taking antibiotics for another problem and as a side effect, it killed off the good bacteria.
Yogurt is a good natural remedy (but not any old yogurt – you have to specifically look for one that contains active cultures). I’ve also heard that fresh, uncooked garlic can help (use it like a tampon), as can teatree oil.
As for me, I’ve always just used monistat.
Yogurt is the only natural remedy I have heard of. And by the way, you don’t eat it. You douche with it.
Talk to your doctor.
Why would you ask for medical suggestions from total strangers on-line?
yogurt is very messy but sometimes works. also, have you tried acidophilus tablets? those have always helped me. also, the more air you can get to that "area" the better. any kind of yeast or bacteria or infection usually needs a warm moist place to survive.
i’ve tried to treat mine naturally before and even though many of those things help relieve the symptoms, after a few days i always go running to the store to buy something over the counter to knock it out.
i’m more for the ‘natural way’ of healing anything i can, but sometimes the symptoms just drive you crazy. if you try and fail, you can get monistat 1 day treatment. you put it in before bed and by the end of the next day i always feel at least 90% better. it works miracles.
**ALSO, don’t try any antibiotic cream!!! antibiotics are one of the main causes of yeast infections!!!
Yogurt. I had chronic yeast infections about a year ago and despite the anti-fungal medications I was given, the only thing that worked was to eat yogurt and to soak a tampon in yogurt and put it inside me. I left it in about 4 hours and replaced it. At night I would put cornstarch down there, just on the outside. It soaked up moisture and kept it dry. Yeast likes moisture so keeping dry is helpful. When using yogurt use plain yogurt with active cultures. The active cultures are bacteria and they eat yeast. Antibiotics are to kill bacteria and would just make it worse. Your vagina needs a balance of bacteria and a little yeast but you can get a yeast infection when you have an overwhelming amount of sugar in your system (like if you have diabetes) or if you lack bacteria.
Nope. Antibiotic creme won’t work so well. It might give temporary effect for a few days, and that’s it. I don’t suggest you to try curing your infection with drugs. They are usually very expensive (the good ones) and only cure the infection for a short period of time. On top of that, 90% of drugs have side effects.
Yogurts does not work so well too. First of all, it’s too messy. Secondly, they don’t work for everybody.
Instead, you should try some other natural ways of curing your yeast infection. You can read more about them here http://cureyeastinfection.bestrealreview.com/
The ones listed there are really proven to work (go for the first one though, we tried it). My girlfriend had yeast infection 2 months ago. We managed to cure it in 2 days, so I’m really an expert in this
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