Does yoghurt actually work in treating vaginal yeast infections?
I just want to know, from women who have had experience with thrush, and have tried this yoghurt method, does it actually work?
I read from an answer here already that its been suggested, and several other sites I’ve been to related to thrush treatment all suggest or recommend using plain yoghurt with active cultures and a tampon.
Some say leave it in for 5 minutes, others say an hour, which is it? One site said 1 tsp of the yoghurt, but then I thought, how are you meant to get 1 tsp of yoghurt, onto a tampon? I doubt that it will, but yoghurt applied internally there can’t do permanent, or any sort of damage can it?
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Yes, it works… my ex- wife used nothing else to treat yeast infections for more than 30 years and probably still does. As long as the yogurt is *fresh*, it’s very sanitary and it can’t do you any harm.
Plain, unsweetened, active-culture yogurt is the only way to go… about a tablespoon or so for each application. You can squirt it inside you with a syringe or a baster, or you can totally coat a tampon and let the yogurt soak into it for a minute or so (not longer) before inserting it.
Leaving it in for at least an hour is best although 5-10 minutes *might* still work… up to 12 hours is OK (*NOT* longer!), but moving around will be drippy and messy so you’ll probably want to clean up earlier than that unless you’re overnighting the stuff.
You can also freeze it a tablespoon at a time into ice-cube trays and insert the little cubes – sounds damned uncomfortable to me, but women I’ve known who did this said it isn’t bad at all.
it does work, and you wont be harmed in any way from it
Eeep, yogurt does work but not if you use it on a tampon, bare in mind that tampons are actually a major cause of vaginal infections such as yeast infections as they prevent vaginal cleaning, encourage growth of vaginal flora, and chemicals within commercial brands interfere with balance of healthy vaginal flora. Tampons are best avoided at any time, but when you have an infection they would just make the situation worse, not to mention additional risks if you use a tampon when not menstruating – although it is safe to use yogurt or other yeast treatments on/in menstrual cups or softcups, even when not menstruating.
Yogurt within the vagina does help, as long as it is plain, unsweetened, pro-biotic yogurt, however the best way to do it is to freeze it – just use a normal ice tray, spoon some of the yogurt into the tray and leave to freeze, once frozen insert – very handy. It is a little cold but that helps cool irritation, it avoids wasting yogurt, it avoids the mess of trying to get the yogurt up there, and when it melts it actually creates less mess than the yogurt coming out of your vagina would to begin with. Leave it in overnight and wash yourself in the morning – 5 minutes or an hour is totally pointless, it doesn’t give it enough time to work.