Yeast infection cures are everywhere. There are pills, potions, and lotions. But are they effective? Are they doing more harm to you than good?
Here is an interesting article right from Reuters at: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSCOL96925120070919
‘Yeast infection’ very often not the real thing
Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:16pm EDT
By Anne Harding
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Only one in every four women who seeks treatment for persistent yeast infections actually has one, a new study suggests.
Women will frequently treat suspected yeast infections themselves with over-the-counter (OTC) products, but the findings show that most of the time this won’t help. In fact, using such medications repeatedly may even cause harm, Dr. Susan Hoffstetter, the co-director of the SLUCare Vulvar and Vaginal Disease Clinic at Saint Louis University, told Reuters Health.
“We treat ourselves because we want our problems to go away quickly,” Hoffstetter pointed out, adding that this isn’t only the fault of patients. “We in medicine also do a lot of treating over the phone just to keep women from having to come in.”
Hoffstetter and her colleagues looked at the medical records for 150 women visiting the clinic for the first time who reported persistent yeast infections.
Lab tests showed that only 26 percent of the women were infected with Candida — the fungus responsible for yeast infections. Other causes of vaginal itching can include sexually transmitted infections, dry skin, or inflammation, Hoffstetter noted, which won’t respond to OTC antifungals and could even be aggravated by these products.
Overuse of OTC yeast infection remedies can alter the normal flora of the vagina, which can lead to other health problems, the researcher pointed out. And, she added, drug-resistant strains of Candida are becoming increasingly common.
If a woman experiences pain during sex, burning sensations in the vaginal area, a thick white discharge, and pain during urination, she may indeed have a yeast infection, Hoffstetter said. And it’s probably okay for women to self-treat if they experience these symptoms rarely, and they get better with OTC medication, she added.
But women who think they are suffering from yeast infections that never go away are likely to have some other problem, Hoffstetter said. In such cases, she advised, it’s important for a woman to actually see a doctor or nurse practitioner and have a pelvic exam and lab tests, if necessary, rather than just getting medical advice over the phone.
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To me there are a couple of disturbing points in this article. The first is that a lot of women get their own yeast infection cures over the counter after self diagnosis. And I guess that if you were pretty sure and it was you first, this may be in the acceptable category, but I am not convinced. If it is your first, you can’t be sure. If it has happened before you are in a different category. The recurring or reoccurring yeast infection category. In the first case you should be seeing a doctor, because there are things that are very serious that have the same symptoms as a yeast infection. If you are in the second, there is a different problem that is causing you to have yeast infection. You can not keep using the same treatment and expect to get different results.
The next thing that disturbed me was the over the phone treatment. Take 2 aspirins and call me in the morning! This would not be one of my favorite yeast infection cures!
And of course I already knew, but evidently a lot of people do not. The fact that over the counter medications can actually do more harm than good in some cases. The drug companies have got people convinced that they need to use and take drugs as yeast infection cures! And of course why wouldn’t they? That is how they make their money.
If you want to get down to the basics, a yeast infection is a message from your body telling you that it is out of balance. Plain and simple. Yeast infection cures such as the pills, potions, and lotions may give you some temporary relief. If the problem is small enough, it may just go away.
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