Why do I start a Yeast Infection Symptoms Blog?

As a woman I just can’t stay to see daily dozens of women, suffering from yeast infection symptoms, who buy OTC (over the counter) products to treat their vaginal yeast infection. Most women are not getting the right or complete treatment for their yeast infections. Instead of that, women go to the pharmacy, buy an OTC product and try to cure their yeast infection. In most cases, the diagnosis will not be certitude.

Simple, accessible information on diagnosing, preventing and treating vaginal yeast infections are hard to find nowadays. If you’ll make a search on the internet, all that you’ll find are sites which are made to sell some affiliate books or products. The reason is that internet is mostly created by men and men are not experiencing vaginal yeast infections and all they try to do is not provide information, but to make some money selling e-books or holistic remedies to women suffering from yeast infection symptoms. That is the very gap I want to fill with my blog.
Not so long ago, the regulation about antifungals (drugs for yeast infection treatment) changed and everyone became highly aware of yeast infections, especially vaginal yeast infections. Due to the good work of the advertising agencies paid by pharmaceutical companies, everyone became familiar with yeast infection symptoms and now every woman thinks that any itch in the vulva or vagina is a sign of vaginal yeast infection.

These women don’t go to a physician or even better, gynecologist to make sure that is a yeast infection, it is much easier to ran to a local pharmacy, buy an OTC product, which are quite powerful, take it, and when the yeast infection symptoms are gone, they just drop out the treatment.

Due to this attitude, two problems arise:

1. The self diagnosis is not perfect. Even an experienced physician can have doubts before the lab results will come, and sometimes even after they come. The danger of this misdiagnosis can be an omitted STD, which can be transmitted but can not be treated by antifungals.


2. Starting and than just dropping the treatment will most probably lead to drug resistant stains of yeasts (normally Candida). Remember when penicillin was a drug that was perfect in any infection? Probably you don’t remember the time (you should be in your 70’s to remember that and I don’t think that are the women reading my blog), but you know that. What happened next? Most of the persons dropped their prescriptions after only 3-4 days of treatment, because the symptoms where gone. Farmers began to add the penicillin to animal food, so everyone who eat those animal’s meat took a small dose of penicillin. That dose was not enough to kill the bacteria in our body, but quite sufficient to develop a drug-resistance. Now penicillin is nothing, is an antibiotic you can not treat anything, even a cold.

The same thing can happen with antifungals. Some studies show already that up to 23 % of Candida Albicans (responsible for approx. 70 – 80% cases of vaginal candidiasis) are resistant to fluconazole, the most used oral antifungal agent.

So, if you want to know more about yeasts, read my next posts on Yeast Infection Symptoms Blog.