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machellebelle
Joined: 16 Feb 2008
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 Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:53 am Post subject: Question for the women |
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One of my American co-workers asked me if I knew how she could get treatment for a yeast infection.
Does anyone know if anything's available OTC?
We'd ask for our Korean co-workers, but we're not the best of friends, and we don't need her personal health to be the office gossip. It's already bad enough not being a size two and the chatter about our sizes and clothes.
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theholyinnocent
Joined: 06 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:56 am Post subject: |
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I'm not in Korea so I have no suggestions on pharmacy products. But I have a friend who swears that plain yogurt (WITH NO SUGAR) works. She eats it as general prevention, but during an infection she has also dipped a tampon in plain, natural yogurt and inserted it. Apparently the good bacteria helps? I dunno. I haven't tried it, but I've always kept this hint in the back of my mind, lest I ever find myself stranded in a land where I have 1) a yeast infection, 2) no access to a pharmacy, and 3) easy access to natural, sugar-free yogurt.
It's kind of like my version of a grass-soup contingency plan (for David Rakoff fans):
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Grass soup is exactly what it sounds like. It's a recipe for food of last resort that my father apparently has squirreled away somewhere. I have never actually seen this recipe, but it was referred to fairly often when I was a child. Should everything else turn to shit, we could always derive sustenance from nutritious grass soup! [...]
A grass-soup situation is a self-dramatizing one based on such a poorly imagined and improbable premise as to render it beneath consideration. Michael Jackson saying with no apparent irony, for example, that were he to wake up one day to find all the children in the world gone, he would throw himself out the window. Mr. Jackson's statement doesn't really take into consideration that a planet devoid of tots would likely be just one link in a chain of geopolitical events so cataclysmic, that to assume the presence of an intact building with an intact window out of which to throw himself is plain idiotic. As for grass soup itself, from what I've seen on the news, by the time you're reduced to using the lawn for food, any grass that isn't already gone - either parched to death or napalmed into oblivion - is probably best eaten on the run. |
Haha, seriously though, I do know a couple people who've put sugar-free yogurt in their vagina and found it helpful. I hope other people here have better suggestions, and I hope your co-worker feels better soon. |
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Panda
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:22 am Post subject: |
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You could consider my advice as professional 
Go to a doctor and get some prescription, Yogurt thing sounds so not promising, sorry Theholyinnocent, wish it is not offensive.
Itraconazole 200mg/day, once a day for 3 days, or twice a day for 1 day, but I recommend once a day for 6 days, or twice a day for 3 days (after meals).
It may relapse, the key is to keep your underwears clean and stop using tampon.
Itraconazole is pricy, but the efficacy is promising and outstanding.
wish it helps.  |
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Jellypah
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
Location: ROK
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| My little pharmacy in this little town has Canesten stocked on the shelves. There are 6 day and 3 day treatments which might be with other fungal remedies. (In my pharmacy it's with the foot cream.) You could print something out from www.canesten.co.kr and show it to your pharmacist. |
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SeoulShakin
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I had one my first year there, and just walked into a pharmacy and said "Canesten". They gave me an external canesten cream for itching. I then said "no no no Canesten" and mimed and up and in motion with my hands. The pharmacist said "ohhh ne ne" and got me the vaginal suppository canesten pill (make sure they include the applicator!). |
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Darashii
Joined: 08 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Garlic. |
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Jane
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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sorry for changing the subject a bit, but this thread reminds me of the time a few years ago, in the company of a couple of friends, when we stepped into a yakguk for the pill, and the old lady pharmacist started doing these pelvic thrusts and chanting "baby shock! baby shock!" We still laugh about that episode today. 
But to answer your question, a few years ago a co-worker had the same situation and I believe she just went to the yakguk, told the pharmacist the variants of the name in English, and the pharmacist understood. I think she asked the Korean female teachers before she went down what the Korean name was but they weren't sure. Could it be that gimchi is also prevents yeast infections! Add it to the list! |
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melirae1976
Joined: 07 Dec 2008
Location: the 'burbs
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Tea tree oil, if available, is great and works pretty quickly. For details on exactly what to do, google it. I tried it while in Japan and it worked great.
**can't believe this is my first Korea post**  |
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oldtactics
Joined: 18 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I second garlic. Easy, cheap, effective, non toxic. |
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akiakiaki
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
Location: Happy Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| oldtactics wrote: |
| I second garlic. Easy, cheap, effective, non toxic. |
Just eating garlic will make it go away? I think the safer suggestion is to go with meds. |
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oldtactics
Joined: 18 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Umm, no, that's not where you put the garlic. |
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