June 14, 2009
How Long To Cure A Yeast Infection
No two fungal infections are the same so they take a different amount of time to cure for everyone. Some women really have a lot of trouble curing their infection, and it’s these women that usually ask how long it should take to cure an infection. The real problem is, they don’t know why they have the infection in the first place so they can’t treat it from the root cause.
The start of a fungal infection is the yeast that lives in your body naturally. Something in your body triggers the yeast to mutate into an aggressive fungus, and that’s when you start suffering from your symptoms. The itching in and around your vagina is one of them, and this is caused by the fungus feeding on your skin cells.
Your body is allowing the Candida to mutate, and to keep on applying the same anti fungal drug to your infection will only make it worse. You need to stop the yeast mutating, no drug will do this for you, only your body can do it. Your natural defenses have been compromised and you need to find out why.
You have a colony of friendly bacteria in your intestines and these keep the Candida under control by keeping their numbers down. When your friendly bacteria numbers are low then the numbers of yeast rise, and then they mutate.
Your diet can be causing the fungus to keep growing in numbers. Fungus loves sugar and any foods that contain sugar. These foods need to be avoided if you want to cure your infection as soon as possible.
If you have an underlying illness such as diabetes then this could be the cause of your infection. This is why it’s so important to see your doctor if you have trouble curing a yeast infection. If you are suffering from diabetes your doctor can try a different medication that will keep your blood glucose levels under control so you stop feeding the fungus.
You’ll be able to cure your infection when you discover the reason why the yeast is mutating in your body. The fungus that is feeding on the skin cells in your vagina will slowly destroy your health from the inside if you allow it to.
Filed under Yeast Infection by Jason King