Yeast infection is a fungal infection which is also called as Candidiasis.Yeast infection is caused by yeast of the species Candida. Normal yeast infections are usually easy and inexpensive to treat,but if you let the infection get worse the complications may appear. A peep into your kitchen will provide you with the most indigenous solutions. Asking your pharmacist or visiting your gynecologist isn't always possible. Taking over the counter medicines might do more harm than good. Relying on natural ingredients can provide you with satisfactory yeast infection natural cures.

Yogurt is one of the best natural cures for yeast infections. This is something that you can also add on to the top of a tampon and then insert. Or you can just eat 2-3 sugarless yogurts each day. For best results, you should do both. Consume raw garlic everyday. You can make a paste by crushing peeled raw garlic and then applying to the area. And, you can use directly as a natural tampon by inserting a raw peeled clove, or, wrapping it in muslin tied up with waxed dental floss. Leave in overnight. Repeat until your symptoms have been eliminated. It is known that tea tree oil is a natural antifungal. On a tampon, pour some drops of oil before inserting it into your vagina, preferably after waking up and before going to sleep. Do this in a couple of days or until you no longer feel the pain and itch of the infection.

Use cotton underpants to prevent yeast infection or to cure it. Wash your underpants with hot water , to be sure that you destroy all germs. Another natural cure or method to prevent yeast infection is that you shouldn't sleep wearing panties. A great all rounder, another natural product you can use in the bath, apply about 2 cups of vinegar and soak for about half an hour, you can also water it down to 6 parts water to 2 parts vinegar and douche immediately over the affected area. Honey is one of the best yeast infection natural cures you can use to relieve the itching and burning of your infection. All you have to do is apply the honey to the affected areas and leave it on for about 20 minutes. Just make sure not to get any of the honey inside you. The sugar inside honey would help feed the infection if that occurred.

Another yeast infection natural cure item that does a world of good is cranberry juice. Buy unsweetened cranberry juice from your local grocery stores and drink this juice a number of times during the day. This will keep your urinary tract free from infection and thus prevent the spread of candida albicans. Take garlic capsules to get rid of candida infection permanently. Garlic has anti fungal properties that can handle even severe cases of candida infection. Another item that you probably already have at home that will work wonders for your infection, is hydrogen peroxide. You simply take one teaspoon of the 3% hydrogen peroxide that you can buy in drugstores and mix it with one cup of water and use as a douche.