How can my daughter treat her yeast infection?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My daughter is an adult now, so it's really not my job to make her go to the doctor. She makes her own healthcare decisions.

Based on her symptoms, it doesn't seem like a UTI or an STD—it appears to be a yeast infection. She's planning to eat yogurt and doesn't want to use any OTC treatments. I'm willing to buy something for her if she changes her mind, she still hasn’t,but I've heard clotrimazole 7 day is better than but the prices are a bit jarring.

If you're finding a 7 day OTC yeast treatment jarring, you're really going to find an ER bill something else.

[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.

Would she treat diabetes with a home remedy? Cancer?

Good Lord. Parent up and order to see a doctor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My daughter is an adult now, so it's really not my job to make her go to the doctor. She makes her own healthcare decisions.

Does she pay for her own healthcare decisions? Or are you going to be on the hook for whatever comes down the road healthwise due to her poor decision making? Did she go to the doctor at 17? Is she vaccinated? What level of eschewing medical care are we dealing with here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My daughter is an adult now, so it's really not my job to make her go to the doctor. She makes her own healthcare decisions.

Does she pay for her own healthcare decisions? Or are you going to be on the hook for whatever comes down the road healthwise due to her poor decision making? Did she go to the doctor at 17? Is she vaccinated? What level of eschewing medical care are we dealing with here?

My Dad was a doctor and he would have brought out his gnarly medical journal photos my now.

Like parenting doesn't stop when your kid is 18. Sure, you can't make her see the doctor. You can tell her she's being stupid and stop playing into her stupidity by googling yogurts or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My daughter is an adult now, so it's really not my job to make her go to the doctor. She makes her own healthcare decisions.

Based on her symptoms, it doesn't seem like a UTI or an STD—it appears to be a yeast infection. She's planning to eat yogurt and doesn't want to use any OTC treatments. I'm willing to buy something for her if she changes her mind, she still hasn’t,but I've heard clotrimazole 7 day is better than but the prices are a bit jarring.

What a pathetic excuse for a "parent" you are. Just horrible.

[Anonymous]

Boric acid suppositories work for yeast infections.

[Anonymous]

She needs to go to a doctor!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boric acid suppositories work for yeast infections.

No, they do not!!!!!!! Stop the idiocy.

[Anonymous]

OP. My daughter still doesnt know how to swallow a pill, but I think she might consider boric acid. Can I have a link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My daughter is an adult now, so it's really not my job to make her go to the doctor. She makes her own healthcare decisions.

Based on her symptoms, it doesn't seem like a UTI or an STD—it appears to be a yeast infection. She's planning to eat yogurt and doesn't want to use any OTC treatments. I'm willing to buy something for her if she changes her mind, she still hasn’t,but I've heard clotrimazole 7 day is better than but the prices are a bit jarring.

Your job is to parent her. She does not magically get "good judgment" when she becomes an adult. It's your job to tell her "The adult response here is to go to the doctor or go to CVS and pick up some medication." It's not just about respecting their autonomy - when people are young, they do not know things that older people know, as witnessed by this "yeast infection" your 18yo diagnosed herself that she won't talk to anyone about or medicate appropriately.

I make my own healthcare decisions as well, but that doesn't include "avoiding medical care" and calling it "making my own healthcare decisions."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. My daughter still doesnt know how to swallow a pill, but I think she might consider boric acid. Can I have a link?

It's a suppository and it doesn't treat active yeast infections. But good lord, you are even more dysfunctional than I originally thought. Why didn't you teach her to swallow pills FFS? Does she have special needs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. My daughter still doesnt know how to swallow a pill, but I think she might consider boric acid. Can I have a link?

I'm sorry, what. Your adult daughter won't swallow a pill, won't see a doctor but hey lets consider medical advice from a complete stranger in the internet with no known qualifications. Boric acid could aggravate the situation (if it's a yeast infection it can kill off beneficial bacteria and make it worse) because you literally have no idea what's going on.

Neither do any of us. That's why you see doctors, they can perform medical testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP. My daughter still doesnt know how to swallow a pill, but I think she might consider boric acid. Can I have a link?

I'm sorry, what. Your adult daughter won't swallow a pill, won't see a doctor but hey lets consider medical advice from a complete stranger in the internet with no known qualifications. Boric acid could aggravate the situation (if it's a yeast infection it can kill off beneficial bacteria and make it worse) because you literally have no idea what's going on.

Neither do any of us. That's why you see doctors, they can perform medical testing.

EXACTLY!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My daughter is an adult now, so it's really not my job to make her go to the doctor. She makes her own healthcare decisions.

Based on her symptoms, it doesn't seem like a UTI or an STD—it appears to be a yeast infection. She's planning to eat yogurt and doesn't want to use any OTC treatments. I'm willing to buy something for her if she changes her mind, she still hasn’t,but I've heard clotrimazole 7 day is better than but the prices are a bit jarring.

Your job is to parent her. She does not magically get "good judgment" when she becomes an adult. It's your job to tell her "The adult response here is to go to the doctor or go to CVS and pick up some medication." It's not just about respecting their autonomy - when people are young, they do not know things that older people know, as witnessed by this "yeast infection" your 18yo diagnosed herself that she won't talk to anyone about or medicate appropriately.

I make my own healthcare decisions as well, but that doesn't include "avoiding medical care" and calling it "making my own healthcare decisions."

OP. Yes, she makes her own healthcare decisions. I can’t force an adult to go to the doctor. How would you like if you were forced to go to the doctor against your wishes as an adult? Not good, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP. My daughter still doesnt know how to swallow a pill, but I think she might consider boric acid. Can I have a link?

It's a suppository and it doesn't treat active yeast infections. But good lord, you are even more dysfunctional than I originally thought. Why didn't you teach her to swallow pills FFS? Does she have special needs?

She just always took liquid meds, and had a hard time swallowing pills.