Does yogurt help prevent yeast infections?
I’ve heard that if u eat yogurt it will help keep yeast infections away. if so, how much do u have 2 eat a day. I’ve also heard that u could dip a tampon in yogurt and wear it 4 direct contact in the vagina. About how long do u keep it in the vagina for it 2 work? Does this also get rid of vaginal odor?
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Make sure it is a yeast infection and not Bacterial Vaginosis or it will get much worse!! But yes, what you heard was true.
Buy a small carton of "plain" yogurt — doesn’t matter whether it is name brand or store brand or is nonfat, low fat or whole fat because you are NOT going to eat it. But make sure it is PLAIN with NO fruit, NO added sugar (milk sugar listed on the carton doesn’t count of course), and NO flavoring in it of ANY type. You should make sure that whatever type yogurt you buy has "ACTIVE CULTURES" listed on its container.
Take a tampon and dip it into the yogurt and insert it into the vagina, allowing it to stay in place for at least an hour or so — longer certainly won’t hurt you. It is COOL and SOOTHING for one thing and will get some of the "good bacteria" right where it is needed the most since that is the main reason to use it — to get the "GOOD" bacteria into where there is a build up of too much "bad" yeast type bacteria.
Continue this for once or twice a day for two or three days, or as long as needed, until the situation resolves itself.
REMEMBER TO KEEP THE CONTAINER OF "MEDICINAL" YOGURT SEPARATE FROM THE OTHER ONES IN YOUR FRIG THAT YOU MIGHT EAT (and of course throw out any leftovers) LOL