Planing Of Natural Treatments For Oral Yeast Infection

The symptoms of oral yeast infection, also called oral thrush, can be agonizing, frustrating and embarrassing, of which the white lesions and flakes from the tongue to the throat, red and raw skin in and around the mouth, and a bad taste in the mouth are the worst. Fortunately, natural herbal treatments to treat oral thrush are many, all of which have been proven in clinical trials and anecdotal evidence to relieve the symptoms, cure the infection and make it stay away.

Nutritional Supplementation

Most mild to moderate oral yeast infection responds to little or no treatment at all, often just resolving by itself through the body’s natural immune system. However, it does help to speed up the process by taking nutritional supplements.

These can include tablets with acidophilus and bifida bacteria that restores the natural balance between the “good bacteria” and the “bad yeasts” in oral thrush infections. Furthermore, these bacteria clean up the intestines of toxins that make it more difficult for the Candida fungi to grow out of proportion and bring on oral thrush.

Of course, if you are not one for tablets, then drinking more yogurts is the solution. Gargling with sugar-free natural yogurt is also a good idea to enable the good bacteria in it to eliminate the excess yeast in the mouth. Just hold the yogurt in your mouth for about 5 minutes, spit it out and then rinse thoroughly.

Drinking Teas

There are many herbal teas that can cure oral yeast infection in addition to significantly contributing to the general well-being of the individual, of which the most notable of these are chamomile tea and pau d’ arco tea.

When taken either before or after eating, chamomile tea stimulates hydrochloric acid (HCL) production in the stomach. HCL keeps the stomach healthy by preventing orally-ingested pathogens like bacteria and parasites from overwhelming the body and it prevents the overgrowth of fungi in the small intestine. Thus, chamomile tea both eliminates the excess fungi in the body and keeps the fungi at normal levels that, in turn, cures and prevents the recurrence of oral thrush. On the other hand, pau d’ arco tea resists the growth of fungi. This makes it ideal as a fungicide especially when taken in 2-3 cups daily.

Topical Applications

Where nutritional supplementation and teas are oral medications meant to penetrate the body at the cellular level, topical applications basically aim to treat oral yeast infection directly at the affected area. It is no less effective simply because the infection receives direct attention, which often means that painful symptoms are also alleviated almost immediately.

Topical applications include goldenseal poultice; tea tree oil wash or grapefruit seed extract that can be done by combining 5 drops to 1/2 cup of cooled boiled water and used to wash mouth with cotton swab; and vinegar or baking soda wash where 1 teaspoon of white vinegar/baking soda must be added to 1 cup of water and used with cotton swab on mouth, too.

It cannot be overemphasized that natural treatments for oral yeast infection can only be effective when proper care and caution are exercised. But ultimately, natural treatments are still best because of its healing efficacy and cost-effectiveness.