Yeast Infections
Added 2015-01-20 16:49:45 +0000 UTChttp://www.ohjoysextoy.com/yeast
This week I cover the beast that is yeast!
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It's called Thrush in the UK too...and it's one of those little known things that men can actually get it as well.
Chris Crowther
2015-02-03 05:08:23 +0000 UTCIt's not called that in Oz: it's called Thrush. Perhaps these days with language drift we're beginning to call it that too. Anyhow, as a former sufferer of this condition, however you want to call it, I can tell you that the drugs didn't work on me at all (They just made me sick) but the yoghurt, so long as was live, worked a treat. It had to be real yoghurt, unsweetened, unset, and still alive. It's also cool and soothing. I switched to cotton sanitary napkins, and never had this condition since.
Thisfox
2015-01-31 22:52:55 +0000 UTCYeah, I've always been skeptical of the yogurt stuff, but that advice shows up on nearly all of my resources that I linked to in the blog post so I defer to the hivemind /:) Yeah, I'd be curious to hear what your friend says!
Erika Moen
2015-01-20 20:53:42 +0000 UTCSo, I-Am-Not-a-Doctor, but... My understanding is that cranberry is useful particularly with UTIs because there's a compound that transmits through into urine that makes it harder for pathogens to cling to the walls of the urethra; there's also some research suggesting that it similarly alters the vaginal mucous, making it harder for EVERYTHING to cling in there, allowing your body to clear everything out and start over. The bit about eating yogurt and other pro-biotics at least sounds like it's probably superstition, not science. Prior to the advent of modern medicine, yogurt was used to treat yeast infections, just by slathering the stuff up in there, and letting the lactobacteria and their friends duke it out with the hostile invaders. I'm skeptical that *eating* the stuff is going to matter at all. There's no easy path for a microbe to take from your gut to your genitals. If there were, you'd have much more serious problems than a yeast infection! If your issue originally had to do with bad bacteria getting wiped across to places where they shouldn't be, maybe this could be indirectly helpful, by helping to adjust your gut microbiome, but really, you'd do more to help in that department by learning to be a little neater, I think. Or getting a bidet. So I'm wondering if you actually checked that bit with an expert -- I completely acknowledge that I'm not one, and could be wrong. I have a friend who *is* an expert on this topic whom I could ask; she was responsible for a research project at my alma mater that involved hanging signs around campus to recruit subjects that read, "Got Mucous?". :-)
Auros Harman
2015-01-20 20:22:36 +0000 UTC
