Is there a way to prevent yeast infection while taking antibiotics?

Question

I have to take antibiotics for a week and typically my past experience they cause me to have a yeast infection (since it kills the bacteria that can fight yeast). Is there a way to prevent it from happening

Answer 1

When you are taking antibiotics you can always eat some yogurt with them. And hen you take a shower be sure that you keep your vaginal area clean and dry. ....you might want to use a small amount of corn starch powder down there to help with that. Good Luck  

Answer 2

Yeast infection because of antibiotics is very common. Also, if you take pills with steroids, as the contraceptive pill. Most say eat lots of yogurt.Should help. However, is recommond it to take some probiotics also.

Answer 3

Take acidophilus, it's a probiotic.  You should be able to find it over the counter at a pharmacy near some of the natural stuff.  It will say for intestinal health or something.  I have the same problem it works!

Answer 4

My doc told me when I had a yeast infection that it was caused by antibiotics.

She said that next time I use antibiotics to make sure i eat lots if yogurt.

Bizarre, but I think it actually works

Answer 5

i don't know if it would count as prevention, but whenever i take antibiotics, i start taking vaginal pills that fight yeast (my english is not so good, but i hope you understand) within a day or two. otherwise, the yeast always occurs. staying away from sugar, drinking cramberry juice and things like that don't help when taking antibiotics, although it is good prevention at all other times.

Answer 6

FIrst, if a yeast infection comes along, let your doctor know--he'll either change your antiobiotic, or give you something to treat the infection.  Yeast infections happen if you take an antibiotic and it kills off the bacteria that is normally on your skin or in the v****a.  Eating yogurt, believe it or not, can replace that killed bacteria, and decrease the chance of the yeast taking up residenence.

Answer 7

Yep.

Put a little bit of plain yogurt (unflavoured and unsweetened: one tablespoon is enough) into your v****a once a day. Eating it does nothing but feed you, because you just digest the bacteria when they reach your stomach and they die.

The bacterium (Lactobaccillus acidophilus) that turns milk into yogurt is also one of the most important ones that normally live in the v****a, antibiotics can kill it off or deplete it badly... and it's essential that some of it be living in there to help control Candida yeasts (it eats the same food and keeps things a bit on the acid side, keeps the yeast from growing out of control).

Answer 8

Yogurt and those DanActive shot things.