How long does it take to cure a yeast infection? The answer to this question is, it’s different for everyone. There are many factors to be considered when it comes to successfully treating fungal overgrowth in and on the human body.

Discovering the cause of your yeast infection

To successfully treat your infection you must first discover the cause of your infection. If you’re struggling to put an end to your infection it’s because you’re only treating the symptoms, and you haven’t found the reason why the usually harmless Candida yeast is mutating inside your body.

If you don’t know the cause of your infection then it’s a good idea to see your doctor to rule out any health conditions or medications that could be causing them. Diabetes is a health condition that can cause chronic yeast infections, and antibiotics are the biggest cause of all yeast infections.

If you haven’t been to see your doctor yet he/she can also give you a correct diagnosis, and make sure you do actually have a yeast infection. Many women self diagnose themselves and get the diagnosis wrong. This means that they’re treating another infection with a yeast infection cream, and this will just cure the symptoms during the treatment, but the infection will be getting worse.

Intestinal Candida overgrowth

If you’re suffering from intestinal yeast as well as vaginal yeast then just treating the vaginal yeast infection won’t have any effect on the yeast inside your intestines. All that will happen is, when you stop the treatment in your vagina the yeast in your body will just re-infect your vagina. You have a good chance of creating a resistant strain of yeast as well if you keep exposing the yeast to the same treatment.

Using OTC medicines

When you use an OTC anti fungal cream such as Monistat your symptoms will disappear a lot sooner than the infection has ben treated. This means that the symptoms can go after a couple of days but you must finish the full course of treatment as the infection will just return, and it will become resistant.

Be patient

Treating a yeast infection can take a long time for some people. If the yeast overgrowth in the body is severe it can take months on a strict anti Candida protocol to eliminate all of the mutated yeast from the body. Some women will continue to take anti fungal drugs, and drugs will make a yeast infection worse because of the effect of the drugs on the human body.

Yeast overgrowth needs to be treated naturally so your body can fight the yeast off on its own. Killing the yeast in the hope that it won’t return is not the answer. A natural or holistic approach will strengthen all of your body’s natural defenses so the yeast can no longer survive in your body.

For 5% of women their yeast infection will return after treating it with an anti fungal medicine. There are a few reasons for this to happen, and they are explained below.

The cream hasn’t been used properly

One reason why a yeast infection can return after treatment is the cream hasn’t been used for the full course. If you purchase Monistat 7 it has to be used for 7 days. For most women their symptoms will disappear after 2 to 3 days and then they decide to stop the treatment because they think they are cured. It’s only the symptoms that have disappeared, but the infection is still there.

The problem then is when the infection returns it will become resistant to the treatment because the Candia yeast will mutate into an even more aggressive form so the infection then gets worse.

You may not have a yeast infection

A small percentage of women who self diagnose themselves get it wrong so they’re not actually treating a yeast infection. Monistat will lessen the symptoms of other vaginal infections, but it won’t cure them. This means that the real infection is actually getting worse, and then you could cause a yeast infection because of the exposure the Candida in your vagina is getting to the treatment.

Finding the real cause of your yeast infection

If you don’t know the real cause of your infection then no treatment will work. It doesn’t matter how many times you attempt to kill the fungus, if your body can’t stop the yeast mutating naturally it will keep coming back. It could be a drug or medicine you’re taking, or an underlying health condition.

Seeing your doctor

As soon as you start experiencing symptoms of an infection in or around your vagina it’s important to see your doctor as soon as possible. Seeing your doctor makes sure you get a correct diagnosis, and then you’ll get the correct treatment.

Your doctor has your full medical history so he/she will be able to prescribe you the best treatment for you. Anti fungal drugs and medicines can interact with other medicines so if you’re taking anything else your doctor will know if you can’t take another specific treatment with it.

Your doctor can also run some health tests if your yeast infection treatment hasn’t worked first time.

Monistat is the number one choice of yeast infection treatments, and it will cure most women first time. If it hasn’t for you then you should see your doctor if you haven’t seen them already.