Antibiotics yeast infections treatment – good or bad?
Yeast infections can be suffered by anyone at any age, men, women even children. They are more common than many people realize though the more irritating condition is probably suffered by women when they get a yeast infection in the vagina. It can be painful, extremely itchy and swollen. It is important for people to learn that antibiotics can have an effect on getting yeast infections so that they are forewarned.
All medications have side effects even over the counter drugs. Antibiotics are no different. Maybe the last time you took some antibiotics for a sore throat or other infection, you noticed when you went to the bathroom that your stools were softer, maybe you even had diarrhea. This happened due to the antibiotics disrupting your body’s system. Antibiotics can affect the bowels. They kill some of the normal flora germs in the bowel, so the body grows them faster and this leads to the diarrhea. It is considered an acceptable side effect to taking antibiotics as it is something the patient can tolerate, it is not serious.
The increased chance of getting a yeast infection is the same kind of side effect to antibiotics. If you were taking antibiotics for a sinus infection for example, they will get rid of the bacteria that caused your illness in the sinus. But antibiotics can also kill good bacteria. Good bacteria are what keep the yeast in the vagina under control. When taking antibiotics, those good bacteria are killed and so the balance in that area is upset. The yeast can multiply without a fight and an infection results.
However this may not happen every time you take antibiotics and nor will it happen to every person. We do not all get affected by the side effects of drugs, or if we do, not always in the same way. Some have a better tolerance than others. Also not all antibiotics are the same. But at least with this information you can understand a little more how antibiotics – yeast infections relate in some people.
Bottom line: when you use antibiotics yeast infections can be triggered due to the death of good bacteria.
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