Treating You Yeast Infection

There are several home remedies, and over-the-counter cures that have been successfully used to treat and cure yeast infections.

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These remedies include changes in diet, drinking a variety of fruit juices, and a variety of cleaning solutions, all that can be made from ingredients found in your refrigerator.

One home remedy people have successfully used to treat their yeast infections is white vinegar (some people prefer using apple cider vinegar). They take a little white vinegar, dilute it with water, and apply it to the infected area. The upside is that this treatment is cheap. The down side is that while its not harmful, when applied to the skin, especially tender or injured skin, white vinegar stings, this is especially true if the white vinegar hasn't been properly diluted. If the idea of dousing yourself with white vinegar isn't your idea of a successful way of treating a yeast infection, you can try bathing yourself with tea tree oil

Another simple home remedy is yogurt. Fans of this treatment claim that ingesting one cup of yogurt each day not only helps cure an existing yeast infection but it also helps prevent future infections. Even if eating one cup of yogurt each day doesn't cure or prevent yeast infections it will provide your body with calcium and protein.

There are several foods and natural supplements that you can eat and take that will help treat and prevent yeast infections. Garlic will help with an outbreak. Avoid eating foods that have a high amount of starch, like pasta, potato's, and breads. Drinking cranberry juice will help clean out your urinary tract, keep it healthy, and potentially help cure an existing yeast infection as well as helping to prevent future outbreaks.

If you aren't sure that a home remedy is the way you want to go about treating your yeast infection there are several over the counter treatments you can use. Vagisal, Monistat. Mycostatin, Femstat, and Gyne-Lotrimin are all popular brands of over-the-counter vaginal yeast infection treatments.

Things that wont cure a yeast infection, but will make you feel better include placing an icepack wrapped in a towel against the infected area. This will also help with any swelling you might be experiencing. Another thing that will go along way in making you feel better is soaking in baking soda bath.

Taking precautions to prevent a yeast infection will mean that you won't have to worry about treating it. Wear loose fitting clothes that don't pull tightly across the groin area. Purchase tampons and toilet paper that isn't perfumed. Change your tampon and sanitary napkin often. Don't sit around in a wet bathing suit. Wipe from front to back. Wear white cotton underwear. Some women find that they are taking an oral contraceptive that is triggering yeast infections. Women who suffer from chronic yeast infections might want to consider abstaining from their long, perfumed, bubble baths.

If you have been treating a vaginal yeast infection for several days and have not noticed any change, consult your doctor and make sure you are really dealing with a yeast infection and not something different.