Yeast Infection ?

[treehugginmama]

Figures, I'm about ready to Ovulate (TTC) and I get a yeast infection. Do any of you know if it's ok to swab the vagina with diluted grapefruit seed extract? or do you have any other natural remedies. I'm taking GSE orally and acidioulpous

[lilith79]

I highly recommend Yeast Guard, it's a homeopathic yeast treatment, much like Monistat, only it's homeopathic. I tried it with my last YI, and it worked wonderfully.

[mainermoma]

Take live acidophilus capsules 3 times a day. They should be the refigerated kinds. Good luck...keep the dosage going until 2 days after infection clears. then just take one or two capsules a day for a week or so.

Good luck...it always works for me.

[rabbithorns]

Shove some yogurt up your you-know-what and it should be gone by the next day. The longest I've ever had to wait for it to clear up was three days. I've never used anything else for the 30 years and it's always worked. (Maybe 15 yeast infections in that time.)

[ojibwamama]

I have used yogurt, but I have found what works best for me is a clove of garlic. Before you go to bed, you peel the hard peel off of a clove of garlic, leaving the clear membrane intact. you then insert it. In the morning you take it out. Repeat this for 2 or 3 nights. This is the only method that works for me, even over the counter yeast infection treatments do nothing for me, but this works.
I was told of this method by my midwife while pregnant.
You can also insert garlic when you are sick, it fights infections like ear infections, throat infections etc. The garlic is absorbed through the vaginal wall and you will actually start to have garlic breath!!

[ojibwamama]

they won't let me edit my post, I forgot to add that if you can, you should lower your sugar intake at the time when you are prone to yeast.

[Altair]

I second the peeled clove of garlic recommendation.

If you're itchy, make a tea tree oil paste. (mix tea tree oil into any carrier safe for your genitals-- jason's organics wild yam lubricant is a good carrier)