If you have ever gotten a yeast infection do not get alarmed if you get one during pregnancy. There is hardly a difference from one infection to the next, whether you are pregnant or not. The treatments tend to be the same but the difference is that you are not prescribed oral meds when you are pregnant for obvious reasons.
All the products in cream form used to treat yeast when you are not pregnant will be the same products used while you are pregnant. Upon seeing your doctor, let him or her know what treatment option you have chosen since he or she needs to be aware of everything you are doing throughout your pregnancy. This will help in avoiding any conflicts with other medications that your gynecologist will be giving you for the pregnancy. Your doctor will be the best person who will be able to advise you whether to use a stronger cream or a weaker one.
Other Methods Also Available
Other yeast treatment methods during pregnancy are available and need to be used with caution if you are not sure or have never gotten a yeast infection before in your life. Make sure that nothing you do harms the baby and this includes not even considering taking oral meds. Tell your doctor that you want to know what the homeopathic or holistic options are as well.
Personal Hygiene
The treatment of Candida or thrush can be an easy procedure you need to administer daily. Each time you go to the bathroom, clean yourself from front to back to control the infection and prevent it from spreading. You can use exterior cream when finished. Ask your doctor for more cleaning products you can use and check if you are cleaning yourself correctly. Some of these cleaning kits can actually be the cause of the yeast infection. Hence, it would always pay to have a back-up to the cleaning kits.
Since you do not have control on your hormones at this point, there is a chance you will get an infection of yeast even just once and what happens is that once the baby is born they may also get thrush in their mouths. Your baby’s mouth thrush can develop into genital yeast infections as well so when this happens make sure they get treated as well. An indication that your child may have the oral yeast infection would be that curdled milky look in their mouth.
