Alternative Yeast Infection Cures

Fungal infections can be treated with various over-the-counter anti fungal creams. Although these creams are used by almost all yeast infection sufferers they never treat the cause of the infection. This can lead to chronic yeast infections that are resistant to the medication. Because the causes of yeast infections aren’t treated by conventional treatments more women now suffer from recurrent infections. Resistant yeast are another reason for chronic infections. Resistant yeast is becoming a problem for more women now because anti fungal creams can be purchased without a prescription, and these creams are getting used incorrectly, and when they don’t need to be used. As well as the over counter remedies that you can for curing a yeast infection, there are a number of natural treatments that you can have that will be just laying around your house. You could have some live natural yogurt in your fridge, and this has been proven to be effective in curing a yeast infection. You must make sure the yogurt is sugar free as sugar feeds the Candida yeast in your vagina. Both eating this yogurt and applying it to the source of the irritation can soothe the symptoms and help to cure the infection, and it can also be used as a preventative method at the same time. Your intestines get the beneficial bacteria when you consume the yogurt, and your vagina gets the bacteria when you apply it to the infection. Unlike anti fungal creams, yogurt doesn’t cause any resistant yeast as the bacteria lives naturally in the vagina in every woman alive. Some of the other things that you can find around your home that be used for curing a yeast infection are things like garlic cloves. I know they don’t sound like a good idea but if you wrap them in a cheese cloth you can insert them into the vagina. You can bathe the infected area in diluted apple cider vinegar as well which changes the PH level to a more favorable one for good bacteria. The natural, live yogurt is by far the best treatment for a vaginal yeast infection. The yogurt just replenishes your vagina with the friendly bacteria that have been taken out. Yogurt is also a lot cheaper than an anti fungal cream.