How can my daughter treat her yeast infection?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. This behavior is pretty typical for her. Telling me to shut up or leave her alone isn't out of the ordinary, so it’s not disordered behavior for her.

I do not believe she's sexually active. She's never had a boyfriend and isn't especially social. She's in high school, and from what I can tell, most of her peers aren't dating or sexually active either.

She comes up with all kinds of reasons for why she hates going to the doctor: it's too far away, appointments take too long, the doctor is annoying, they ask too many questions, it's too cold, she's too busy, she's too tired, she hates filling out forms, she hates sitting in the waiting room, etc.

I told her to stop asking me to about it because I wasn't going to keep telling her the same thing. She got angry, but she has stopped asking now.

She needs to be told in no uncertain terms to grow the eff up. Most people dislike going to the doctor for these reasons. We go anyway, because we take care of our health. Tell her to drop the pathetic pretty princess act and start acting like an adult. Your tone needs to be firm when you tell her this.

This person is well meaning but has probably no experience dealing with people with debilitating anxiety or on the spectrum. OP, if it’s even half as bad as you describe, you need some professional guidance here.

[Anonymous]

Buy her some cotton underwear for the summer and cotton shorts. None of that polyester rayon crap that creates a greenhouse effect down there. It does help to avoid those awful polyester mixes in the summer.

[Anonymous]

Wow. There’s a whole lot of misinformation on this thread. Boric acid is highly effective in treating infections. Burning is a symptom of Yeast infection, and sex usually isn’t a common cause of yeast infections.

[Anonymous]

Could she be more open to seeing a nurse practitioner?

[Anonymous]

There actually is a completely effective home remedy for a yeast infection: going 100% clean keto for an entire month to starve it of sugars. Also boil underwear and towels at highest temperature setting your washing machine allows, and o ly wear cotton underwear.
More work than going to cvs or the doctor’s, though.
I would urge my kid to go to the doc and I would advocate hard for one-dose oral diflucan because as others have suggested, monistat is hell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. She’s never been sexually active before so it can’t be an STD, and she doesn’t want a prescription or over the counter medication. She wants a home remedy.

Based on her not wanting to go to the doctor for this-i’m calling BS on her not being sexually active. My guess is that maybe it is a yeast infection but maybe it’s something else and she doesn’t want to run the risk of the something else showing up on your health insurance EOBS. She needs to go to the doctor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. There’s a whole lot of misinformation on this thread. Boric acid is highly effective in treating infections. Burning is a symptom of Yeast infection, and sex usually isn’t a common cause of yeast infections.

According to who?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 18 year old daughter has a vaginal yeast infection, and she says she's had it for a while now. The issue is she doesn't want to go to the doctor and wants to treat it at home.

Does anyone know any home remedies that actually work? We also have a prescription for Ketoconazole Cream 2% (Fougera) at home, and she wanted to use it. She’s getting conflicting reports online about whether it's okay to use for a vaginal yeast infection.

Can she use it? Has anyone dealt with this before or had success treating a yeast infection at home?

Omg you have raised a moron

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There actually is a completely effective home remedy for a yeast infection: going 100% clean keto for an entire month to starve it of sugars. Also boil underwear and towels at highest temperature setting your washing machine allows, and o ly wear cotton underwear.
More work than going to cvs or the doctor’s, though.
I would urge my kid to go to the doc and I would advocate hard for one-dose oral diflucan because as others have suggested, monistat is hell.

Her kid is an idiot who the hell does not go to the doctor for a yeast infection ?

For one she may not even hag3 that to not get this diagnosed is horrendously bad parenting

[Anonymous]

OP. She is not willing to see a nurse practitioner or a midwife. Nobody. She’s had this infection for almost 2 or 3 months, so it’s not really an emergency. She chose to ignore it, and thought mild yeast infections could get better on their own. She doesn’t have special needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. She is not willing to see a nurse practitioner or a midwife. Nobody. She’s had this infection for almost 2 or 3 months, so it’s not really an emergency. She chose to ignore it, and thought mild yeast infections could get better on their own. She doesn’t have special needs.

Then it's not that bad and she can just suck it up and deal, and hope it's not something with long-term consequences that will land her in the ER or infertile. And she can stop complaining unless she's willing to actually do something to fix it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. She is not willing to see a nurse practitioner or a midwife. Nobody. She’s had this infection for almost 2 or 3 months, so it’s not really an emergency. She chose to ignore it, and thought mild yeast infections could get better on their own. She doesn’t have special needs.

Um, yes she does. She has been in discomfort for as long as 3 months and insists on doing NOTHING about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. She is not willing to see a nurse practitioner or a midwife. Nobody. She’s had this infection for almost 2 or 3 months, so it’s not really an emergency. She chose to ignore it, and thought mild yeast infections could get better on their own. She doesn’t have special needs.

Not that have been diagnosed, anyway. But she's so rigid and anxious that she is unable to go to doctors, unable to hear or consider other perspectives, asks the same things over and over again, and lashes out when challenged. This isn't typical. She has something going on. But given your completely passive attitude about "that's just who she is so it's normal," rigid thinking that because she's 18 she is automatically an adult and you can't parent her, and beliefs that it's normal for a parent to enable this situation by asking anonymous randos on the internet for snake oil recs, it is not surprising that it hasn't been noticed or investigated. What a crazy theread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. There’s a whole lot of misinformation on this thread. Boric acid is highly effective in treating infections. Burning is a symptom of Yeast infection, and sex usually isn’t a common cause of yeast infections.

According to who?

The Mayo Clinic says it's used only for candida infections that hasn't responded to other treatments. But it's as much of an OTC medication as anything else, so not sure it solves OP's issue.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/yeast-infection/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20379004

[Anonymous]

Bacterial vaginitis can be very similar to yeast infection.

PSA: this thread is why to take a DD for her first pelvic before college. Break the ice so to speak.