Battling a yeast infection can be extremely irritating especially if it takes long to go and if it keeps recurring.
Natural home treatment offers better and quicker results as against the treatments recommended by doctors.
White vinegar for yeast infection is one such methods.
It can be used to cure all types of yeast infections.
White vinegar has acidic properties which can keep the Candida in check.
Yeast requires warm moist places to grow and multiply and hence it seeks refugee in places like woman's vagina, which provides ideal conditions for growth and multiplication.
How to apply Vinegar? Get vinegar that is 5% strong.
Add 2 teaspoons of white vinegar to 1 quart of water and apply it on the affected areas of the skin.
It could be applied on the vagina and in any other place where there is itching.
Also for male yeast infection, vinegar could be used by washing the penis and the genital area with the dilute vinegar solution.
To cure oral yeast infection, vinegar could be taken in the mouth and gargled a few times.
Is Vinegar the best treatment for Yeast Infection? Although, vinegar offers excellent relief from yeast infection, if you would ask if vinegar treatment is the best way to cure the infection, the answer is absolutely not! Some precautions that need to be taken while using vinegar is that, you should make sure you don't get the concentration wrong with vinegar, as the acetic acid concentration if it goes up can really irritate the sensitive skin like the inner walls of vagina.
Further, the acidic acid can kill the useful bacteria present in the vagina which keeps the Candida in check; this can lead to recurring yeast infections.
Most importantly, a treatment like vinegar will just treat the infection when it occurs, but for permanent cure and to keep yeast infection from recurring, it is important to treat the root cause which is the excessive growth of Candida Ablicans along with the natural topical remedies.