More women are now creating miconazole resistant Candida infections with their OTC yeast creams. They continually apply the cream to their vaginal infection even if it isn\’t working, or they don\’t even need the cream in the first place. It doesn\’t take that long at all for the fungus to become resistant.

The biggest mistake women make with attempting to cure their yeast infection with the anti fungal OTC creams is, the vaginal itching is only a symptom of their infection. To keep applying anti fungal cream to a symptom is not going to work ever, but because of their doctor\’s advice, these women think this is how they cure a yeast infection.

Yeast lives in your body all the time. It lives in your vagina, in your intestines and on your skin. Your body usually keeps the yeast under control if you\’re healthy, and your body\’s natural defenses are at full strength. This is why you weren\’t suffering from an infection before, but you\’ve had the yeast in your body for years.

Because your body\’s natural defenses have been compromised they yeast will continue to grow in numbers and mutate into a fungus. You have the symptoms in your vagina because the fungus loves to live in a warm, moist place, so this is where you experience the itching.

Just because your vagina has the worst symptoms doesn\’t mean that it the only place you\’re infected. This is why anti fungal creams don\’t cure yeast infections, they just treat the vaginal symptoms. Even when someone uses an OTC yeast cream and it stops their symptoms, the infection is still going on inside their body.

To cure your fungal infection you have to get your body\’s natural defenses back to the strength they were at before so your body can stop the yeast from mutating. This is the only way you\’ll remove the fungus from your body.

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