Heedful Advice – Why You Should Not Diagnose and Treat Your Yeast Infection

A majority of people who have had yeast infections in the past, and know the symptoms, are comfortable treating their infection with OTC medicines. Most of the time the condition will respond very favorably with this approach and be eradicated in roughly seven days. This, of course, is only true with a simple yeast infection in an otherwise healthy person; however, more complicated yeast infections can occur in someone who has certain medical conditions that will necessitate a visit to a doctor to ensure the safest and correct treatment. Anyone, for example, with diabetes has to be especially wary of getting a yeast infection, as well as those with compromised immune systems or cancer. Have you had reoccurring yeast infections lately? If so, it's time to visit your doctor to find out why.

The best solution is to visit your doctor. This will give you the peace of mind of knowing that the treatment the doctor prescribes is correct for the situation he or she diagnosed. You may have experienced identical symptoms previously, but you are still taking a wild guess that the cause is the same. There are three different conditions that are called "vaginitis" and you could have one, two, or a combination of all three. You need to refrain from treating your infection incorrectly and perhaps causing more serious symptoms. So the results will be a trip to the doctor, which you thought you could avoid.

There is a group of antifungals called polyene antibiotics that help kill the fungal cells. Nystatin and Amphotericin B both are common medications that fall into this class. Amphotericin B is a very serious medication mainly used intravenously for systemic Candidiasis. A chronic yeast infection is not something to take lightly. It is a serious condition and can be major hazard to your health. Nystatin is also very strong and is used both topically and orally. It cannot be used intravenously due to toxicity problems. The mode of attack on the yeast cell is similar to the azole class of medications in that the cell wall is compromised thus causing yeast cell death.

You have to be more careful if you are treating oral thrush or a yeast intolerance because they can be more complicated to treat correctly than a skin infection. If you require an oral medication, then this will need to be under the supervision of your doctor. The main group of drugs, as we stated above, that are used for antifungal treatment are the ergosterol inhibitors, which includes the azoles. Some azole drugs stop the ergosterol in the fungal cell membrane from being synthesized in the first place, so the cell cannot live. The compromised fungal cell, therefore, cannot survive or reproduce. Human cells will not be compromised by the use of these azole drugs. They are specifically formulated to act upon fungal cell membranes.

It has been the goal of this report to make you aware of the complexities of yeast infections. There is a lot more to them than just vaginal yeast infections that can be treated with a cream. The critical conditions surface in people who have a weakened immune system, especially those with HIV/AIDS. The immune system of someone who has had an organ transplant is suppressed on purpose so the person's immune system won't reject the new organ. Therefore, these people are specifically at risk to develop a yeast infection. Other patients are those who are undergoing prolonged radiation treatment.

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