Home Remedies For Yeast Infections
Yeast infection comes by a lot of different names. Some people call it Candida, some call it bacterial vaginosis (yuck), but you know when you feel that familiar itching sensation that conditions are ripe for a bad day. It’s tough to get through a day at work (let alone an active personal life) when you’re wrestling with intense itching and scary looking excretions.
Even if you want a home remedy for yeast infections, the first thing you should do is talk to a doctor about it. Why? You don’t always know whether the disease you’re sporting symptoms for is really a yeast infection! Nothing’s worse than try a bunch of home remedies onto find out that you don’t have a yeast infection, and what you do have is getting worse! Once you’re reasonably sure that’s what you’ve got, try these amazing home remedies. Hopefully you’ll be able to knock out this infection without having to leave your living room!
Unsweetened Yogurt
The word “unsweetened” is use with deliberation – you should stay away from even eating sugar when you’ve got a yeast infection, because you’re giving it the fuel it needs to grow and make your problem worse! If you stay away from flavored yogurt, you’ll activate the “good bacteria” inside of yogurt, and these natural cultures will eat away the yeast fungus, killing it on contact.
Tea Tree Oil
You’re not supposed to introduce any extra moisture during a yeast infection, but this is an exception – tea tree oil is really useful (as long as you aren’t pregnant). It’s important that you dilute with water and get a small dropper so that you can apply it in a controlled manner. Mix a teaspoon of Tea Tree Oil and a teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a one to one solution. Put this in a pint of water and douche once every day. After a couple of weeks, you should see some seriously effective results.
Garlic
Garlic is one of the strongest solutions when it comes to fighting bacterial infections. Yeast infections aren’t any different. This is a treatment you can take internally or externally – put a clove into the vagina, and switch them out every 6-8 hours for 2 days. Also, you can use one of the many other methods people use for getting garlic into their system, that includes tablets, pills, or just cutting the cloves up and drinking them with water. Does it smell great? No. Does it drop your yeast infection? Yes.
Gentian Violet
This isn’t the kind of home remedy you can get lying around the house, but a quick visit to the drug store (or a couple of clicks on Amazon) will get it in your living room. This is a powerful antiseptic made from tar coal. What’s special about this remedy is that it lowers the “adherence level” of yeast, which means you reduce the risk of it coming back. It’s not hazardous, but you need to take some basic preparations. Wear a pad if you’re using it vaginally, and don’t use more than you can fit on a Q-Tip or Cotton ball (you won’t need more than that anyway).
