is it true that eating yogurt make the yeast infection go away or prevent one ??
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Yeast infection
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It can help, especially if it has active bacteria (can't remember name) in the culture.
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No, but douching with plain yogurt will.If that doesn't appeal to you, there are oral acidofolus capsules available (you can get them over the counter at organic food stores like Whole Foods). Acidofolus is the "live, active cultures" found in yogurt, and taking four or five of these capsules will sometimes clear up a yeast infection. The capsules must be kept refrigerated, however, or else the live cultures will die, and the pills will be useless to you.
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OK.. now that doesn't exactly make sense. There are yogurts with active Acidofolus yet you say that eating this yogurt will not help, but taking capusle of the same will.
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The cultures in acidofolus capsules are highly concentrated; I do not believe there are enough cultures in yogurt to cure a yeast infection, if taken orally (in other words, the caps are about 7 times more concentrated than what you'd get in a serving of yogurt). I guess if you wanted to eat, like, a whole truckload of yogurt, it might have some effect. But it seems to me there's only so much yogurt a person can tolerate in a day. Douching with yogurt, on the other hand, can and does help neutralize yeast.
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Eating yogurt can help treat and avoid yeast infections from occuring.
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i heard if u put yogurt on a tampon and leave it in for the night it will cure it!!
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putting a tampon in when you're not on your period is not good for you
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just what i heard.. i was talking to my cousin and she said her friend went to the doctor and he told her to put this blue liquid on a tampon and leave it in over night
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In reply to: putting a tampon in when you're not on your period is not good for you Tampons aren't hella good for you anyway. They contain trace amounts of dioxine, a chemical deemed a probable carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Dioxin is a byproduct of the chlorine bleaching process used in manufacturing tampons. Have any of you guys tried Diva-Cup? http://www.divacup.com/
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tampons are fine to use
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You don't think what is true?That tampons contain dioxine, or that dioxine is carcinogenic?You are free to research this yourself, and I hope you do.
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I doubt that the amount of dioxin in tampons is enough to cause any problem. You can get unbleached ones if you are worried.
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That could be... but repeated exposure is a concern. Over a lifetime, that's a LOT of exposures to trace amounts of a carcinogen.Good advice on unbleached; I definitely recommend that. Are they accessable everywhere? I shouldn't be sidetracking the thread with this issue anyway; I'll start a new one. Excuse me. please carry on with the, er... yeast talk.
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They've also proven that white bread can cause cancer (I don't remember what kind). Is it worth paying attention to?
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If you can produce some sort of factual data that "white bread causes cancer", then yes, I will absolutely pay attention to it. I will look it over, research the claims, and decide whether or not it's worth worrying about.
But what does all this have to do with the topic at hand? Oh, wait, I get it... bread, yeast... :grin: -
Smoking, drinking alcohol and eating more than 15 slices of white bread per week appeared to increase the risk of colorectal cancer, according to the British Journal of Cancer report.Sanjoaquin said the fact that white bread appeared to reduce cancer risk was "unexpected," and suggested that people who ate large amounts of white bread might have simply had a less healthy diet overall.Alternatively, he added researchers have noted that eating large quantities of refined carbohydrates, such as those found in white bread, may raise colorectal cancer risk, suggesting that white bread itself may also play a role.Taken from the bottom of this article:http://www.cancerpage.com/news/article.asp?id=6774
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In reply to: Oh, wait, I get it... bread, yeast... Heheh.
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In reply to: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa111898.htm Hm. Fascinating.You've proved to me that asbestos-containing tampons are an urban legend. Very interesting. If I'd ever been worried about asbestos in tampons in the first place, that sure would've set my mind right at ease. However, the link did nothing, really, to allay my concerns about dioxin in tampons. What it said about that was, quote:"The claims about residual dioxin in tampons may be debatable, but the claims about asbestos are pure hogwash. Tampons do not contain asbestos and never have. No research has been published anywhere to even suggest it."So. There we have it.Everyone is welcome to do with this information as they see fit. Tampons of "debatable" safety are not good enough for me, therefore I've recently switched to the Diva-Cup and I'm loving it. Everybody else is free to choose the form of feminine protection that works best for them.