Oral tablet for a yeast infection?
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at
8:07 pm
I have a vaginal yeast infections, and I hate suppositories. I have seen a few oral treatments at CVS but I have never heard anything about them. Are they effective in curing the infection, or will they just help the symptoms? Has anyone here tried them before and can you recommend one?
Thank you!
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Actually believe it or not the oral treatments are the best way to cure a yeast infection. Basically the reason you have a yeast infection is because there’s an imbalance in your body. A healthy person has a balance between the yeast in their body and the good bacteria in their body.
Too much yeast, you have a yeast infection. Too much bacteria, you have a bacterial infection.
So, when you have a yeast infection you essentially have too much yeast in your body. The natural way to treat it and bring back that balance is to starve the yeast and introduce more good bacteria into your body. That’s why the oral method is the most effective way to go.
Oh and BTW – That’s why you often get relief from using the over the counter meds temporarily, and then the yeast infection comes back. The creams aren’t changing the source of the problem. They are just killing the yeast they come in contact with, and not balancing the yeast/bacteria in your body and actually sometimes end up making things a lot worse.
Oh BTW2 – That’s also why many times you’ll get a yeast infection after using anti-biotics. Anti-biotics kill all the bacteria in your body, the good and the bad. When that happens the balance between the yeast and good bacteria is off once again and you get a yeast infection.
Things you can add to your diet (to help promote good bacteria) are live yogurt cultures (or take Acidophilus), plenty of water, fresh vegetables, lots of protein rich foods, whey protein, raw garlic, nuts, seeds, oils, millet, rice and oat brans
Things you should remove from your diet (to starve the yeast) are all sodas, sugars, fruit, fermented foods, foods containing white flour, alcohol (especially beer), antacids and any product that has yeast or mold
You can change your diet in conjunction with using the creams that you’ve been using and that will speed up the recovery significantly. But what I would also recommend is to use a homeopathic solution instead. I always feel if there’s a natural way to do something, then it’s best to avoid the chemicals. I would look for an natural product, that can be taken orally to promote regrowth of the good bacteria in your body.
There are a few out there, I think they are probably all pretty good. One that I have used and was very effective for me was is yeastrol. Here’s the link I used if you are interested in finding out more.
I have heard there is a medicine called Diflucan for yeast infections, but as far as I know it is a prescription only. I think the suppositories are safer, the medicine mostly stays in your vagina where you want it, an oral medicine will get in your bloodstream and your whole body and maybe risk messing with the bacteria in your intestines and stuff. But that’s just my opinion.
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