...while I'm here, yeast

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Hi all-- while I'm around here, thought I'd share a little yeast-info, for those of you kindly listening to me whine about my yeastness the other month--

I did a little research on yeast infections and talked to my dad about them (he's a doctor). Main stuff I found:

--> don't eat yogurt, it doesn't help. well, that's not entirely true. If you're hungry it will help you to not be hungry. But it will not take away a yeast infection. You'd actually have to:

--> put the yogurt in you. but why do that (ew, yig) when you could simply

--> insert acidophilis capsules instead of yogurt. Acidophilis is the bacteria that makes milk into yogurt.

It prevents/cures yeast because it alters the ph balance of your vagina-- makes it more acidic, and therefore less hospitable for yeast. It doesn't work to eat the acidophilis/yogurt because bacteria is weeded out by your digestive tract and will never reach your vagina. If you've got bacteria getting to the rest of your body and not getting killed in your stomach you've got WAY bigger problems than yeast.

--> Vinegar douches also change the ph balance of your vagina to something unfriendly to yeast. Don't do them too often tho because you can get other irritations that way.

I had luck with the capsules; they really seemed to help. You can get them at any pharmacy/decent grocery store.