endless thrush.........please help!!!!!

[SonyaSingapore]

I'm 15+ weeks pregnant with my 4th baby and am getting seriously fed up with suffering endless thrush. It's got progressively worse each pregnancy but has been an issue each time. I live in hot humid Singapore which doesn't exactly help but I do everything I can to keep clean and fresh...........after a few doses of pessaries and endless cream that seems to do nothing my doctor's attitude is just to live with it - but I would LOVE to hear from anyone who has found any natural remedies - or ANY remedies - that have worked for them. Please!!!

Sonya, you have my sympathies - I've been sufferring from recurrent bouts of thrush and that's just in damp, drizzly Scotland.

I found that the following helped. Lying in a lukewarm bath with bicarbonate of soda added (1-2 tbsp, also avoid sugary foods and eat plentty of bio-live yoghourt, if you can get hold of it. Applying live yoghourt directly is also very soothing, if a bit tricky !

Hope this is of some help to you.

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Sonya, you have my sympathies - I've had it this whole pregnancy. Awful. I find a bath with lavender essential oil in it helps and eating probiotic yoghurt.

Thank you to you all - I'll try the suggestions out and hope for some success. I also heard that a dilute vinegar solution was a good thing.....although it doesn't sound too nice - has anyone tried it?!

I found that eating garlic was really helpful-especially raw! Not very sociable, I know! I put a bit in salad dressing or took a supplement. It is anti-fungal, and seemed to work well for me. Don't know how practical it is for you, and you should check it's OK to take a supplement in pregnancy, if that's easier that the real thing.

Otherwise, eating live yoghurt also helped.

as has been mentioned, whatever you do, don't use any bath products (apart from essential oils/sea salt/bicarb) at all (no bubbles, oils etc). and do not ever use soap down there...wash with water only. sounds a bit unhygeinic, but you shouldn't actually be using soap down there anyway (or so i've been told by more than one doctor.)

hth

Sonia - avoid yeasty foods and sugary food (sugar feeds the yeast apparently) - bread especially as they will only exascerbate the problem - try and check to see if you are not allergic to the medicine they are giving you - I knew a lady who was allergic to Canestan and she ended up in a terrible state.

Live yoghurt is good and drinking the actimel (pro biotic) type of stuff is too and slathering your bits in the live yoghurt is supposed to work a treat.

Only wear cotton pants or none at all if you can get away with it and be rigorouss about changing bedclothes and towels and making sure DH is clean down there too.

And people are dead right about soap and stuff - I can't use it ever or bubble bath as it will bring on a reaction straight away!!

Good luck - and try not to scratch if you can. XXX