How to Treat Vaginal Yeast Infection
Vaginal discharge that is thick, whitish, looks like cheese & feels like yogurt, is often due to yeast infection. But it can be easily treated.
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Vaginal discharge that is thick, whitish, looks like cheese & feels like yogurt, is often due to yeast infection. But it can be easily treated.
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Vaginal yeast infection or vulvovaginal candidiasis usually occurs when the healthy yeast that usually lives in your vagina grows out of control.
9 out of every 10 women will have a yeast infection at some point in their life.
9 out of every 10 women will have a yeast infection at some point in their life.
What causes yeast infection?
1. Use of antibiotics (which lowers the amount of #lactobacillus, the good bacteria in the vagina)
2. Douching
3. Hormone imbalance
4. Anything that weakens your immune system like;
• diabetes
• stress
• lack of sleep
• pregnancy
• HIV/AIDS, etc
1. Use of antibiotics (which lowers the amount of #lactobacillus, the good bacteria in the vagina)
2. Douching
3. Hormone imbalance
4. Anything that weakens your immune system like;
• diabetes
• stress
• lack of sleep
• pregnancy
• HIV/AIDS, etc
What are the symptoms of yeast infection?
Apart from the thick, whitish, cheese-like discharge mentioned earlier, vaginal yeast infection may come with;
• itching
• redness
• irritation
• excoriation or
• burning sensation in the vagina
Apart from the thick, whitish, cheese-like discharge mentioned earlier, vaginal yeast infection may come with;
• itching
• redness
• irritation
• excoriation or
• burning sensation in the vagina
You can treat yeast infection with #antifungal creams.
But if your symptoms don’t improve after 14 days of antifungal creams, or symptoms occur four times and above in a year, see your doctor.
No need to treat the male partner who is not showing symptoms.
But if your symptoms don’t improve after 14 days of antifungal creams, or symptoms occur four times and above in a year, see your doctor.
No need to treat the male partner who is not showing symptoms.
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