Thrush - What should I do??

[Tracey Habron]

Wow ladies,

Everytime I read a thread it is a serious education. Sorry to hear about the thrush - it is so irritating.

But there are a few things you can do.

This is going to be a long reply, so hang in there.

There are a few things to consider first.

You do not only treat yourself, you treat your partner!!! You help yourself with creams and he can be reinfecting you. Get him to use canasten on his penis, especially under the foreskin. There are some people who believe men are the carriers but never show symptoms. For a more natural solution, add 5 drops of lavender and 5 drops of tea tree essential oils to 30mls of sweet almond oil and apply daily, especially under the foreskin.

Thrush thrives on sugar so start removing refined sugar from the diet and eat a wholesome, healthy diet. No cold drinks, no cakes, no cookies, and cut the tea and coffee - it may be tough but do you really want to beat this??

Now, start treating thrush from the inside. The fungus Candida Albicans causes thrush. You need to get a lot of super probiotics into your body to start a biological warfare to kill off the fungus. This is the only biological warfare I support!!!

I recommend a product called In-liven that Kelly has mentioned. This is a probiotic superfood containing13 strains of probiotic to help your body. Most of the probiotics have only 1, 2 or 3 strains of probiotics. Even though these are good probiotics, you overpopulate on only these strains and they start to have a fight with other good probiotics for food and still create an imbalance. What you want is a broad spectrum strain of probiotics to create a healthy balance. In-liven is also a certified organic product meaning that the probiotics are cultivated on organic vegetable matter - I wont go into where some probiotics are cultivated!!!

Once you start to clear out the gut and balance the health, your body has a better chance to fight the fungus.

I have more information on this product that I can email if you send me an email address.

Now, for symptomatic relief!

Yoghurt is good but it needs to be wholemilk, natural, white, unpasteurised with live cultures such as acidophilis. It is going to be hard to find but look for it. A substitute would be yoghurt with In-liven mixed into it 2 teaspoons to 100g of yoghurt. You can also add 7 drops of lavender and 7 drops of tea tree oil to 100g of the yoghurt. The fun part is getting the yoghurt up there!

I have used a large syringe I can fill easily from one end. If a penis can get up there, so can a syringe. I have used tampax applicators by sealing off the inner insert, but getting the yoghurt into the applicator was messy - you work out your best method.

For those of you who are prepared to douche, mix the above yoghurt solution with water to a thin fluid and use this, I have used a syringe here as well. Just don't squirt it in too hard.

Another douche solution is 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 3 drops of lavender, 3 drops of tea tree and 600mls of water. This can be used as a douche or soak a tampon in it and insert into the vagina in the morning, remove at night. You can add this to a hip bath with a tablespoon of rock salt.

Hope all this helps.

Let me know if you needs clarification.