After the Infection.
Posted over a year ago
How do most women feel after getting over a yeast infection? I have no real burning or itching really, just sometimes, it feels like my vagina is still not perfect, like it's weak i suppose from getting over the infection. Is that why i have a SLIGHT discomfort. I have no pain urinating, or a burning or itching sensation, and no odor.
Misslloid - A yeast 'infection' is not a normal infection, as in, if you cut yourself the bacteria get in and make a mess. It's a fungal infection, which is simply an overgrowth of yeast fungi. If you are still not recovered, you need to figure out why you got an overgrowth of yeast in the first place - it is normal for yeast to live in the vagina (warm, moist), and inside your body. But when it gets the right environment, it multiplies considerably, causing the symptoms of a 'yeast infection'.
Your diet is one of the primary causes of an overgrowth of yeast in the body, and if it's in your vagina, it is most certainly over grown inside your body (intestines mostly). High sugar foods, birth control pills, and a high simple carbohydrate diet (white bread, processed foods with not much to them but garbage) all feed yeast.
I know it can be hard to think outside your normal diet and what you think is good for you, but your diet plays the biggest role of any other thing you do or don't do for your body. If you get thrush often, then take a look at what your doing when you get an attack and you'll see that you are doing something - eating sugar, going out drinking, whatever it is.
You may also have a low grade yeast infection all the time, which flares up. Drink plenty of water, and eat good food and you should notice an improvement in your problems. There are simple things you can do to help regulate your intestinal flora, such as probiotics and a product that I don't want to 'promote' but that I have used for my thrush problems with good success (its called Threelac).
Its all about the balance of our good and bad germs inside the body. Creams and pills that kill the surface candida may help in the short term, but they do not help the cause of the problem in the first place.
Lilly_bee - reducing the sugar is a major factor for me. I'm currently on antibiotics, 2nd round. and of course, Yeast infection. Chronic. My doctor perscripes Terazol .08 3 day treatment. but being on antibiotics for 10 days, i use the Terazol .04% every night 1/2 a tube of creme. thus making it last 14 days. I eat a lot of yogurt, and take L-lysine, and probiotics, and CoQ10. I hate those vaginal yeast infections. It happnes to come-on durning the antibiotic treatment. Lots of water, sticking to no sugars, none, and it's not easy. Anyone have anymore ideas on how we can keep these chronic v. yeast infections at bay? thanks
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