Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Drug Resistant Yeast Infections

By Jason King

Miconazole resistant yeast infections are easy to create, and more women are now finding this out all the time. They keep applying this anti fungal drug ( miconazole ) to the symptoms of their Candida overgrowth, and then the fungus in their vagina soon becomes resistant.

The biggest mistake women make with attempting to cure their yeast infection with the anti fungal OTC creams is, the vaginal itching is only a symptom of their infection. To keep applying anti fungal cream to a symptom is not going to work ever, but because of their doctor's advice, these women think this is how they cure a yeast infection.

The yeast is not the problem when it comes to infections as this organism lives in all of us all of the time. The infections start when your body can't keep the yeast under control anymore, and then it starts mutating into an aggressive fungus that starts feeding on your body. Your body's natural defenses were keeping the yeast under control up until your were infected, and it's your natural defenses that need to be repaired in order to cure your infection.

Because your body's natural defenses have been compromised they yeast will continue to grow in numbers and mutate into a fungus. You have the symptoms in your vagina because the fungus loves to live in a warm, moist place, so this is where you experience the itching.

These symptoms are not an indication that the infection is just in your vagina, and this is why a lot of women are unable to cure their infection with an anti fungal cream that contains miconazole. Miconazole is good at killing fungus, but you need to stop the yeast in your body mutating.

The yeast is not the problem when it comes to infections as this organism lives in all of us all of the time. The infections start when your body can't keep the yeast under control anymore, and then it starts mutating into an aggressive fungus that starts feeding on. Your body has to regain control of the bacterial environment in your body, and until it does you will always have fungus growing in your intestines and vagina. The cream you're using is just creating a stronger strain of fungus that is going to be more difficult to eliminate from your body.

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