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Home Yeast Infection Cure

A home yeast infection cure is now being used by more women because they have realized that they don't need to use any anti fungal drugs on their body to treat teh overgrowth of Candida. A vaginal yeast infection is caused by the lack of good bacteria, and a home treatment juts puts this bactreia into the vagina instead of killing the fungus. Killing the fungus with an anti fungal cream just creates resistant yeast, and it also upsets the chemical balance.



See your doctor first

Although you don't need a doctor's prescription to use a home remedy for your yeast infection you should still see them for a correct diagnosis. A home yeast cure will only cure a yeast infection, and if you're suffering from another infection it will jsut get worse.


Home yeast infection cure using yogurt

A quick trip to the grocery store/supermarket will get you everything you need to treat your yeast infection at home. All you need is a live, suger free yogurt and a box of tampons. The yogurt has to be a live yogurt so it has the benefical bacteria that are going to be re-introduced into your vagina, and it must be suager free as sugar feeds the fungus. Using a yogurt that has sugar in it will make your infection worse.

The live cultures that are in the yogurt live naturally in yoru vagina so you're not putting anything in there that doesn't already live there. Yogurt has no effect on the chemical balance like a cream will have. The cultures in the yogurt will fight off the fungus and bring yoru vagina's bacterial balance back.


Using the yogurt and tampons

Using the yoguet and tampons is easy once you get the hang of it. At first it can be a bit messy, but no more messy than inserting a cream into yourslef. All you need to do is dip a tampon into the live yogurt and then insert the tampon into your vagina. All you do then is leave it in for a couple of hours, and then take it out. Leaving it in for too long can make your symptoms worse, and there really is no benefit of leaving it in for nay longer than neccessary.

Repeat this process a couple of times a day, and then yoru vagina's bacterial balance should be back to normal within a few days to a week.

If this home cure for yeast infections doesn't work then you may need something stronger or the reoccurance of your infection could be caused by something else.