Thrush always be treated at home, but under medical supervision and laboratory control cure. Otherwise, nothing will - thrush starts to come back again and again. For symptoms of thrush often hide symptoms of a bacterial infection.
Features thrush genitals
The fungi of the genus Candida are natural inhabitants of the genital mucosa in most people. But they do not cause disease, because they can not overcome the immune protection of human health. If the immune system falls, the fungi of the genus Candida begin to multiply rapidly and penetrate into the cells of the genital mucosa, causing disease. This feature allows you to not get sick thrush sexual partner of the patient, if he has a normal immune system. But that does not relieve him from kandidonositelstvo so treated only if one of the partners, it will continue to be infected by the second.
The second feature of thrush is that fungi of the genus Candida can live together with the pathogenic bacterial flora, and in some cases the symptoms of thrush hide, "obscure" the symptoms of other infections. As a result, everyone benefits pathogens, supporting each other's livelihoods.
All these features do not allow for qualitative treatment of thrush
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without medical and laboratory monitoring.
Still need to be surveyed
First of all, the patient survey is conducted in order to clarify the diagnosis of the disease and its causes. For this purpose, research is taken isolation and scrapings from the mucous membranes of the genital and investigated at first under a microscope (in this case has a value of not revealing fungi of Candida and their number) and then by seeding material onto culture media to identify all infectious agents, and their sensitivity to antifungal and antibacterial agents.
In addition, the patient examined in parallel, to find out why he had fallen immunity. The reasons can be many: from such seemingly minor as carious teeth to diabetes or chronic infectious and inflammatory diseases.
How to treat thrush at home
Usually, the doctor prescribes antifungals both internally and topically. In order to permanently get rid of yeast infection, this treatment must be combined with a tonic as a vitamin-mineral complexes, strengthens the immune system (tincture of Siberian Ginseng, Immunal and so on). Treated as all foci of infection.
Inside today often take drugs containing fluconazole, you can take a one-off. But in practice, in order to get rid of yeast infection, a single dose is rarely enough. In some cases, often recurrent thrush, fluconazole have to make a monthly basis for a long enough time. You can also combine a single dose of fluconazole
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with taking nystatin for ten days.
Locally, in this case, you can use hip baths and douches with a 2% solution of soda, and lubrication of the mucous membranes of genitals brown 5% glycerol
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. You can use folk remedies in the form of garlic
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or onions. For hip baths or douching solution suitable garlic, prepared on the basis of: the juice of one medium-sized cloves per cup of water.
If the symptoms of thrush appeared recently and not too pronounced, it is possible to manage local agents, such as clotrimazole vaginal tablets. They designate 100 mg per day for a week, or 200 mg per day for three days, or 500 mg once. The tablets are administered once at night when using the in the applicator deep into the vagina. Produced and cream with clotrimazole, it is also used topically (inserted into the vagina), using an applicator daily for one to two weeks for the night.
The source of the fungi of the genus Candida is often the intestine, so that the effect of treatment kept as long as possible, you need to heal the gut. It is best to use any of the milk products containing useful to intestinal bacteria - yogurt, yogurt, fermented baked milk, acidophilus milk, yogurt and so on. When purchasing such a product in the store you need to pay for the period of their validity, it should not exceed a week, otherwise the milk products contain lactic acid bacteria for the intestine useless.
In addition, to avoid the recurrence of the disease, should avoid sugary foods - it is a breeding ground for fungi genus Candida.
After treatment necessarily carried out monitoring of cure. To do this, conducted laboratory tests that detect decrease in the number of fungi of the genus Candida on the mucous membranes of the genitals.
Galina Romanenko