Testing For a Yeast Infection at Home
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Symptoms for a yeast infection include itching, burning, redness and swelling. Sometimes there is a thick cottage cheese like discharge and sometimes there may be an unpleasant odor. But these symptoms could equally be describing any 1 of a number of vaginal infections, bacterial vaginosis, for example or several STDs. Therefore before you start treating it you need to know what you really have. Because of the embarrassment vaginal infections cause some women are reluctant to immediately see a doctor though this is really the best course you can take. However there are a couple of options you have for testing for a yeast infection at home, which are outlined below.
First of all there is a vaginal health screening kit you can get from Vagisil. It does not actually diagnose your problem specifically, but what it does do is look at the pH of your vagina. There is a color chart to compare your resulting pH and the closest color has a pH range number. You can then tell roughly what your health problem may be by researching pHs. For example, a yeast infection does not change the pH of the vagina, so if you have the symptoms but your pH is coming out as normal it is more likely you have a yeast infection than something else. This information can also be given to the doctor when you visit him or her and can help them with their diagnosis.
Another way of testing for a yeast infection at home is by doing the spit test! Before you consume anything, first thing in the morning, food or liquid, you need to spit into a glass (see through) of water. Have it next to your bed for as soon as you wake up so that you remember. Get a good amount of saliva collected in your mouth to spit in the water, do not mix it or anything. Then carry on with your normal day and leave the glass alone for at least an hour.
After an hour have a look at the glass. If your saliva has all sunk to the bottom of the glass you have a severe yeast infection. If it is all floating on top of the water at the top of the glass your problem is not an overgrowth of fungus. If there is some on top and some dropping down and it looks stringy then you have a yeast infection but it is mild still.
This is a cheap and easy way of testing for a yeast infection at home and it is important that you are sure that is what you have before treatment is started otherwise you are incorrectly treating which means whatever you do have is going to get worse, and you are possibly creating a problem where you are creating a resistance to the treatment you are using. Two thirds of women believe they have a yeast infection but in fact have something else so as useful as testing for a yeast infection at home is, visit a doctor as well.
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