Infection recurrent vaginal

See your doctor again if treatment doesn't resolve your symptoms or if your symptoms return within two months. No alternative medicine therapies have been proved to treat vaginal yeast infections. Some complementary and alternative therapies may provide some relief when combined with your doctor's care. Talk to your doctor about what alternative treatments for vaginal yeast infection may be safe for you. If you've been treated for a yeast infection in the past, your doctor may not need to see you and may prescribe a treatment over the phone. Otherwise, you're likely to see a family medicine doctor or gynecologist.

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Some people may be susceptible to frequent yeast infections but there are steps you can take to prevent them — if you know what triggers them But there it is again — the maddening itch that signals another vaginal yeast infection. If you have 4 or more vaginal yeast infections a year, you have a chronic yeast infection problem, says Erin Nelson, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Chronic yeast infections can be frustrating for patients and doctors, says Linda Masini, a nurse practitioner at Advocate Medical Group in Chicago. Why do yeast infections keep coming back, no matter what you do?

Objectives: We aimed to compare the efficacy of 2 commonly used contemporary vaginal estrogen administrations versus placebo for the prevention of urinary tract infection UTI in postmenopausal women with a clinical diagnosis of recurrent UTI rUTI. Methods: This was an investigator-initiated, multicenter, single-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of vaginal estrogen delivered via ring or cream compared with placebo. Postmenopausal women with documented rUTI were randomized to receive either vaginal estrogen via ring or cream or placebo cream in a fashion. The primary outcome was occurrence of UTI at 6 months.