Treatment for YI?
I'm just wondering, if you do have a yeast infection, what happens if you don't treat it? will it eventually go away on it's own or will it develop into something worse?
and one more thing, does putting yogurt on a tampon and leaving it in overnight really work?
Not sure what happens if you leave it but I really don't think the yogurt on the tampon thing will work.Just curious, why don't you want to treat it?
Sometimes they can go away on their own. Don't do the tampon thing...if you're not on your period you shouldn't be sticking a tampon up there.
well i'm not entirely sure i have one, and i'm not old enough to drive on my own to the store to get treatment. i dont want to ask my mom cause i had sex (she found out) like a month ago and even though i've taken 4 negative tests she's paranoid that i'm pregnant, saying you can't trust the tests. if i tell her i think i have a yeast infection she'll relate it to pregnancy ("pregnant woman get yeast infections!!) and accuse me of having sex again, which to her means i must be pregnant...
Your mom seems very narrow minded.
if you think that you might have one then you should drink a lot of cranberry juice everyday until it goes away and if it doesnt then you should go to a doctor real soon because if it is one then it could spread to your kidneys and that can be really painful trust me ive been there and it doesnt feel good at all but so drink cranberry juice and if it persist then go to the doctor and a little note personally i think your mom sounds like she just wants something to bitch about because if she were that worried then she would have taken you to the doctor to get checked out instead of taking 4 home test so if it keeps up just tell her you need to go to the doctor and shell get over it and take you. (hopefully)
Cranberry juice? Cranberry juice has nothing to do with a yeast infection. Cranberry juice is good for urinary tract infections... Yogurt on a tampon is discussed in a lot of home remedies books. It supposedly works. But you have to use plain yogurt with live cultures. You can buy Acidopholis from Meijer or any drug store. It's a vitamin that creates "good bacteria" and treats yeast infections. (It's what I take.)
