Treat your yeast infection now, before it gets worse!
So just when do you know when a yeast infection is “just superficial” and when you need to seek the professional guidance of your health care practitioner?
If you’re in good health, one indication is that if you try to solve the problem yourself with over-the-counter medications and fail. Then you should seek the aid of your health care practitioner.
If you have a weakened or compromised immune system – no matter the cause of your weakened state – you should contact you health care practitioner at the first sign of any yeast infection. It doesn’t matter if it may seem trivial to you, contact her anyway. This gives her the opportunity to monitor the situation from the very start.
There are other reasons to call your health care practitioner as well. If you’re experiencing a vaginal yeast infection, with the discharge lasting for more than one week, you should consult a professional.
You should also contact your health care practitioner if you experience recurring yeast infections; this may be a sign of a more serious, underlying problem. If, along with your vaginal discharge, you also have a bloody discharge, or abdominal pain, a fever or increased urination, consult your health care practitioner.
Contact your health care practitioner if you develop oral thrush. This particular infection requires a prescription medication. If oral thrush develops in a child, watch him carefully. If he has drunk nothing for the last 12 hours then you need to contact your health care practitioner. She may want to place him on IV fluid replacement.
Just as there are many versions of the fungus and it affects many areas of the body, there exists a wide variety of treatment options for the fungus Candida. How your health care practitioner treats your particular symptoms depends on what type of fungus you have, where the infection is located and the severity of your symptoms – to name just a few variables.
Options for treating this type of infection include a myriad of creams, pills, lotions, troches (also more commonly called lozenges) as well as vaginal suppositories. Here are some of the classes of medication your health care practitioner may prescribe.
They are called azole medications. They belong to a family of antifungal drugs and you can recognize them because they all end in the suffix “-azole.” They work by blocking the creation of ergosterol, a vital substance in the cell wall of the yeast. Without this substance, the yeast cell wall weakens and leaks. Eventually the yeast die. Ergosterol is not found in human membranes, so the azole medications do no harm to human cells.
Another type of medication is called polyene antifungals. These include nystatin and amphotericin B. Nystatin is used primarily to treat thrush as well as some superficial candidal infections. Doctors pull out the amphotericin B only for the more serious fungal infections that are systemic, those affecting your whole system.
These antifungal drugs work by literally attaching themselves to the ergosterol of the cell walls. Then they create artificial holes in the walls that cause the yeast to leak and eventually die.
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