How can my daughter treat her yeast infection?

[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.

[Anonymous]

You can get infection from self fingering. IYKYK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. Thanks for the replies. She wanted to use Fougera, because it’s something we already had at home, but she doesn’t want to get something new. Any ideas?

If she doesn't want to get anything new - including an OTC remedy - than we can't help you.

No one can.

Your attention should be focused on convincing her to see a dr.

[Anonymous]

My first symptom of pregnancy was an awful yeast infection. Apparently the increase in hormones can change the ph balance in the vagina and increase vaginal secretions. I was on vacation in Orlando and was in so much discomfort that I took a taxi to a 24 pharmacy for Monistat. I don’t know how the OP’s daughter can stand the itching and discomfort.

[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.

There are no home remedies for yeast infections. I grew up in the dark ages when all yeast meds were Rx and once was a bystander while my aunt inserted plain yogurt in her vagina in an attempt to mitigate yeast symptoms. It didn't work. Neither do boric acid suppositories or probiotics--especially for an infection that is well-established.

What is the reason for her aversion to getting necessary health care?

[Anonymous]

For God’s sake OP, buy the Monistat 7 and hand it to her. Just say it’ll make her feel so much better if she takes the whole course. Leave it in her bathroom if she doesn’t take it from you.

Here’s a link so you don’t buy the wrong one.

https://www.cvs.com/shop/monistat-7-dose-yeast-infection-treatment-7-disposable-applicators-1-cream-tube-prodid-542647?skuId=542647&cgaa=QWxsb3dHb29nbGVUb0FjY2Vzc0NWU1BhZ2Vz&cid=ps_pla_fs_pc_fc_na_nab_na_mp_ggl_na&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21108577572&gclid=Cj0KCQjwio_RBhDMARIsAJPveNMghtGSBoJnL4zEbApDWr7Ej6H3mn1KItPpnYJaFFGiFLPMGkgBun0aArKhEALw_wcB