How to prevent yeast infections? Generally, taking time out of relax (helpful to avoid stress), nutritious meals, and well-balanced eating style are some of great healthy lifestyle approaches that can be effective option to keep well the performance of your immune system -- which eventually will be also helpful for your body to prevent all kinds of infections (including vaginal yeast infections).
Well… It is believed that 3 of 4 women will experience vaginal yeast infections at several points in their lives (approximately 45 percent of women get 2 or more, and about 75 percent of women have had at least one time).
As mentioned in the previous articles (causes and symptoms of yeast infections), the major reason of this infection is Candida fungi. Candida normally lives in some areas of the body (including in the genital area), but certain external factors can create an ideal environment for Candida yeasts to overgrow!
Some common risk factors that can put you at higher chance of vaginal yeast infections are low immune system, high risk sex behaviors, and antibiotics. Even some women with pregnancy are also more likely to have this infection.
So, how to prevent yeast infections?
Let’s to the point, the following are some helpful tips on how to prevent yeast infections (helpful to reduce your risk of getting one):
- Manage well your stress and keep focus your healthy diet (avoid eating unhealthy foods)! There are some women who are believed that by keeping far away from stress and unhealthy foods (particularly like sugar-foods) can lower the risk of getting one of yeast infections (although there is still no medical confirmation about this opinion).
- Another idea is by eating yogurt that has ‘friendly’ bacteria (like lactobacillus acidophilus) may also be effective to prevent yeast infections.
- Be friendly with the correct habits, like after using bathroom you should choose to wipe “from front to back” instead of from back to front! This is important to prevent spreading unfriendly bacteria from the anus to your genital area.
- Keep far away your genital area from a damp condition! Change your clothes as soon as possible from a wet swimsuit or wet workout.
- Keep in ‘airy’, dry, and cool by avoid choosing to wear tight-fitting shorts & pants!
- Be careful to a kind of antibiotic that you want to choose. Talk with your doctor first, especially if you have had vaginal yeast infections. You may need antifungal therapy for the solution of this case!
- Avoid using anything that can disturb the balance of good bacteria or other friendly micro-organisms in your genital area (particularly such as; scented tampons, douches, feminine deodorant sprays, & scented powders).
- Eliminate your lifestyle on using synthetic leotards or nylon pantyhose. When you have to wear these, you can wear the kind with a cotton panel in order to avoid a damp condition (this idea is helpful enough to absorb and remove moisture away from your body). Avoid also choosing to wear panty liners, which may contribute to higher chance of recurrent vaginal yeast infections.
- For a woman with diabetes, she should manage well her diabetes (especially by keeping well the blood sugar levels as close as possible to the range of normal levels)!
Read also a nice article about yeast infections in men!
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