When it comes to treating yeast infections in women, things can get a little tricky because you want to treat it on the inside as well as do something about the irritation, itching and discomfort on the outside.
Luckily there are a few ways that you can do all of that safely, naturally and best of all quickly and all in the privacy and comfort of your own home.
One of the most popular ways to do this is by using probiotic yogurt.
You want to make sure that you choose a natural, plain probiotic yogurt because you'll be using it on your most intimate parts, so the fruit-bottom variety just won't do! You want only natural ingredients when you're working with parts of the body that fall south of the border, if you know what I mean! Here's what you do for treating yeast infections in women with yogurt; Apply the yogurt to the outer portion of the vagina.
Most women have vulvar irritation, redness, swelling and itching.
By applying the probiotic yogurt, you get almost instant relief - especially if you use it while it's cool! The active cultures in the yogurt fight off yeast and will start working right away.
Now, to treat the inside of the vagina, you can use your fingers or, an easier and tidier way is by dipping a tampon in the yogurt and then inserting.
This should be done approximately four times every day until the yeast infection is gone.
You can also make this even easier by dipping a few tampons in the yogurt and placing them on a tray in the fridge.
As they cool the yogurt will harden a bit which will make for less messy insertion and again, the coolness will feel oh so good on poor your irritated skin! Treating yeast infections in women couldn't be any easier than this.