Can
eating avocado help vaginal yeast
infection patients to improve their medical
condition and achieve relief? The answer to this
question is equivocal. While no food component is
considered to be yeast infection remedy per se, some
vegetables, including avocado, can be highly
effective in maintaining the intestinal environment that
can help control the aggravation of vaginal yeast
infection.
Vaginal yeast infection, also known as vaginal candidiasis, affects millions of women worldwide. In western countries, about 75% of all women experience vaginal yeast infection at least once at some point in their life, and up to 8% suffer from recurrent infections. The typical symptoms of vaginal candidiasis include intense itching and burning in the vagina or vulva, redness or swelling of the vulva, and often a thick, white, cottage cheese-like discharge.
This
medical condition occurs when a microorganism called
Candida, normally found in the human body (mostly in the
intestines and in small harmless quantities), multiplies
and grows out of control. When candid multiplies it
leaks into the bloodstream through the damaged mucous
membranes within the gastrointestinal tract, leading to
systemic and local (including vaginal) yeast
infections.
There are number of internal and external factors that contribute to the disruption of the delicate inner balance that keeps Candida under control. Those include the violation of the acid – alkaline balance in the blood and digestive system.
The “acid – alkaline balance” is determined by measuring the pH levels in the human organism. A pH of 7 is neutral on the acid-base scale, which goes from zero to 14. Any number higher than seven signifies an alkaline environment, while anything lower means your ‘internal environment’ is more acidic. The human blood ranges from 7.35 to 7.45, with 7.4 considered optimum. However, a deviation from the normal range can severely affect one’s health. Thus, when the blood becomes too “acidic”, the body simply becomes more susceptible to diseases and the ideal environment for Candida overgrowth is created (candida multiplies easier in an acidic environment).
Modern western lifestyle (stress, lack of sleep), combined with poor dietary choices, promotes our internal environment to become more acidic. However, by switching to a balanced alkalinized diet, the proper acid/alkaline balance could be restored. This diet must have two main principles: heavy consumption of alkali forming foods while moderately consuming acid forming foods.
A list of alkali forming foods includes avocado, alongside with apricots, almonds asparagus, figs, lettuce, cabbage, carrot, cucumber, lemon, soybeans, spinach, potatoes, tomato, grapefruit etc. A list of acid forming foods includes bread, cheese, fish, meat, eggs, olives and rice. Note that the foods that belong to the second category shouldn’t be eliminated from one’s diet but carefully combined with the alkali forming foods.
Keep in mind that since vaginal yeast infection is a complex condition, triggered by numeral internal and external factors, neither avocado nor any other food component can replace the actual treatment of candidiasis. Adding alkaline foods to your diet is only the first obligatory step of a holistic and comprehensive vaginal yeast infection treatment.
Did you now that there is an all - natural
holistic therapy that can permanently cure and prevent
your vaginal yeast infection? This treatment is based on
combining healthy dietary patterns with lifestyle
alternations, stress elimination, the intake of herbal
and homeopathic supplements and cleansing and
detoxification. This unique combination of anti-candida
protocols can reverse and prevent all types of candida
infections (including vaginal) quickly and safely.
