Yeast Infection Medication Can WORSEN Your Medical Condition
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Recent statistics show that Candida yeast infection impacts 75% - 80% of the entire population of developed nations. While hundreds of millions of dollars are poured into yeast infection medication purchases every year, questions still have to be answered on the real results and also the menaces involved in taking such treatment for Candida infection. Yeast infection medications are increasingly demanded by patients who expect these products from drug manufacturers and providers. This is because yeast infection is continually on the increase amongst the peoples of developed nations.
Yeast infection, known as well as Candidiasis, is the result of candida fungi. Candida albicans is responsible for some 80% of all yeast infections, the other 20% coming from Candida glabrata, Candida tropicalis and other types of fungi. Yeast microbes are normally to be found in the human body, including that of healthy individuals. They live in the warm moist environment of the mouth, the intestinal tract, the vagina and the rectum. In healthy people, yeast microbes ar held in check by probiotics, which are beneficial microbes. Thus Candida does not multiply or cause damage. However, when Candida begins to multiply rapidly, the external symptoms appear.
Symptoms of yeast infection can be both unpleasant and painful and for recurring candidiasis, this is proof of a severe inner lack of equilibrium or a degraded autoimmune system. Candidiasis can affect different parts of the body. Examples of the most common subspecies are Candida vaginal infection, diaper rash, thrush in the mouth, and others. According to the subspecies concerned, symptoms of yeast infection may vary. For example, vaginal infection is often experienced as genital itching with a thick, white discharge without odor.
Yeast infection medicaments have been available since 1990 as creams acting against fungi, suppositories and tablets.
In this list are Butoconazole, Diflucan Gyne-Lotrimin, Clotrimazole (Mycelex-7), Miconazole, Vitaklenz, Nizoral, Monistat - 7, Sporanox, Terazol, Nystatint Tioconazole and Vagistat. Their effect is different according to which medicament is being considered. In some cases Candida microbes are attacked and dissolved by active ingredients such as clotrimazole (found in products such as Gyne-Lotrimin and Mycelex-7) and miconazole nitrate (found in Monistat 7) which are often prescribed for infections of the vagina. They can be compared with muscarinic cholinergic agonists which are the basis of medications prescribed for thrush in the mouth and used for increasing salivary flow. Such medications include cevimeline (Evoxac, Daiichi) and pilocarpine (Salagen, MGI Pharma).
Such medications for yeast infection can be effective in the immediate term but have a number of drawbacks:
1. Yeast infection medication immediately targets the symptoms of Candida infection, but fails to take account of the complex condition of candidiasis and the fact that it is triggered by a general inner imbalance or comparable clustering of factors. The effect is only temporary.
2. Repeated use of medicaments over a long duration may bring on undesirable secondary effects.
3. The onset of chronic Candida infections and further complications of ill health may be the result of encouraging what may be an unhealthy way of life through reliance on medicinal cures. This then aggravates their medical ailment.
Thus temporary alleviation is all that most yeast infection medicaments will bring, not to mention possible side effects. Yeast infection medication does not measure up to the holistic approach, because as a conservative solution, it does not recognize that the body is an integral whole and only addresses the symptoms of the disease. On the other hand, alternative holistic solutions that include specific vitamin and herbal adjuncts with a complete agenda of dietary protocols and Candida control guidelines, will eradicate the inner cause of candidiasis securely and effectively while at the same time preventing its recurrence.
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Linda Allen is a health consultant and author of the #1 best-selling e-book Yeast Infection No More . For Further Information: Vaginal Yeast Infection
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