Out, damn yeast

09Jul09

Keeping healthy doesn’t just meant eating the right things and doing good exercise. It also meant having a good mentality about things and keeping your other body parts/temple/ shrine in tip top condition.

I recently had a bout of yeast infection which made me itch and miserable but cost me a bomb too. I don’t know why I never thought of seeking a GP’s help first. My first instinct was to go to my gynae which meant looking at my vajayjay while charging me a bomb. Totally doesn’t make sense. Anyhow.

It’s the first time I got an infection and I thought it’d go away after a dose of medication but nope. It seems that re-occurence is common. Upset and distressed, thinking all these weird thoughts, I was on the verge to go back to my gynae when Wen Bunny told me to just see a GP. This lady GP was great. Gave me a pessary and some cream and told me some tips my silly gynae never told me!

Tips for you ladies:
1) Personal hygiene is key obviously. Love your vajayjay. Use gentle soap.
2) Use a condom if you’re sexually active and if you’re on the pill or married and not using rubber, make sure your partner is not complaining of itch as well. It will just be a miserable case of you spreading to him, healing, and him spreading it back to you. Get him checked too.
3) Panties. Throw away your old panties. Honey, it’s time to get new ones.
4) Sun those panties. If they are relatively new, great, but make sure you sun those undies! Due to me not having a housekeeper now, I do my laundry loads at night only and that could be a culprit. Washing doesn’t mean killing bacteria and hence there could still be traces of yeast bacteria on your panties. So, sun ‘em, kill ‘em.

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