At Home Treatments For A Yeast Infection
Women often get yeast infections because yeast can build up easily and multiply for many reasons such as sexual activity, excessive moisture in the vaginal area or even diet.
Frustrated by having to go to the pharmacy so often for medication to treat your recurrent yeast infections?
Try these at home yeast infection remedies to kill the yeast production, cure your current infection and stop another one from developing. You can do these at any time from the privacy of your home and they’re inexpensive.
Alter your diet
Food won’t cure a yeast infection once it’s started on its course but it can help prevent one in the earliest stages or prevent it from forming at all. You might consider making some adjustments to your eating. Many foods can be put directly on the skin to treat the infection immediately.
Plain yogurt
The calcium, low fat content and vitamins in each serving are great nutritionally and make it a great health food all around. Additionally it contains a good bacteria called Lactobacillus acidophilus which attacks and kills yeast.
Stop future yeast infections by increasing your yogurt consumption.
Pieces of garlic
It stops people from kissing you and vampires from coming near as well as killing yeast production. Use garlic on the tampon and put in your vagina to treat the infection directly, it will sting a bit but soon you’ll be far less itchy down there.
Cranberry juice
The acid found in this fruit helps promote healthy tissue formation and clears the passageways in the urinary tract as well as the colon and vaginal canals.
Try tea tree oil
Coat the end of a tampon with lubricant and add some tea tree oil over it.
Put the applicator on the tampon again and insert into the vagina as normal.
Take off the applicator and leave the tampon in so the tea tree oil can absorb into the vagina properly.
The oil will reduce redness and inflammation, soothe the itching and provide some comfort.
Take an apple cider vinegar bath
Prepare a warm bath and add a bottle of apple cider vinegar to it.
Sit in your bath for twenty to thirty minutes and soak.
Since apple cider vinegar is quite strong it shouldn’t be applied directly to the sensitive skin of the vagina.
Increase water consumption
Nature’s remedy is always water. Water clears out the foreign bodies and helps the system circulate and work better.
Increase your daily water drinking habits. Suffer through the frequent urination for the better cause of cleaning your body.
Cotton underwear only
Don’t promote yeast production with clingy fabrics, only wear cotton underwear or none at all to allow some fresh air up there.
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