Many women are now in the habit of using over the counter anti fungal creams when they aren't suffering from a yeast infection. These creams force the yeast to mutate into fungus, and it does this to protect itself from the active ingredient in the medication. This is the reason why you should never use any anti fungal treatment before you are diagnosed with a yeast infection.

Resistant Fungal Infection

Using OTC creams will force the Candida to mutate into fungus

Applying an over the counter yeast infection cure will cause the harmless Candida Albicans yeast living in your vagina to mutate. When this harmless organism mutates it turns into an aggressive fungus, and that is the point you'll be suffering from a yeast infection.

Resistant Yeast Infection

The cream that has caused the infection will no longer be any good at curing it. By applying the cream before you had an infection you have unknowingly created a resistant yeast. This means you will now need something stronger to kill the yeast, and this is usually an oral anti fungal drug. Moving onto oral anti fungal drugs can mean your health is going to suffer. These drugs have side effects, and they can also upset the natural chemical balance in your body, and that can encourage fungal overgrowth in some people.

Anti fungal creams don't prevent infections

Some women think that using anti fungal creams actually prevents a yeast infection. They think that they are keeping their vagina clean and free of fungus by using these creams when they don't need to. They think that these creams are harmless because they are so easily available. Women have created resistant yeasts with these treatments when they didn't even need to use the treatment in the first place.

Your vagina doesn't in any way need anything to keep it clean, it does that itself.. If you do have something in your vagina that needs treatment then see your doctor first for a correct diagnosis.

Some women will look at a list of symptoms online and then diagnose their own infection. If they self diagnose a yeast infection, but they have something else then the real infection will just get worse while the anti fungal cream is being applied. This gets dangerous when they stop the treatment, and their symptoms return, and they think their yeast infection has returned. What they do next is go straight out and purchase the same cream that hasn't worked the last time, and then they start using it again. By this time the infection that they have misdiagnosed is still getting worse, and getting to the point where it could cause permanent damage to the kidneys or reproductive organs.

Always go to see your doctor for a diagnosis

Always get your doctor to diagnose your infection before you use any OTC yeast creams, And you need to stay away from these treatments if you're not suffering from a yeast infection.