Pregnancy and Yeast Infections
You’ll already know what a yeast infection is and how one occurs, but what happens when you get pregnancy yeast infection?
Is it harmful to the baby? Will it spread and cause the baby harm? These are all questions which it is important to address when you have contracted a yeast infection while you are pregnant.
Many women who are pregnant develop candida even although they may never have suffered from it previously. This is due to the changes which occur in the body during pregnancy.
Furthermore, emotional stress which affects many women who are pregnant expecting a child may downgrade the immune system and cause a thrush outbreak to occur.
One of the other things that makes pregnant women susceptible to vaginal yeast infections is that they often experience cravings for high sugar or high carbohydrate foods, which can often be the catalyst to a yeast infection occurring.
Because of all the changes that a woman’s body goes through during pregnancy, such as hormones, psychology and physiology, a combination of these factors often leads to candida overgrowth and therefore oral yeast infection or oral thrush.
Also, many women change their daily routines, or take supplements which their body is not used to which again can trigger and outbreak.
If you are affected by a yeast infection while pregnant, it is important to find a remedy so that there is no risk of passing the infection to the baby in the birthing canal. Since it is inadvisable for pregnant women to take antibiotics or anti fungal medications, we must look for an alternative.
The naturopathy approach is considered the best option, by taking a blend of natural herbs in oral spray format, the yeast infection is eased, then disappears. In addition, oral sprays prevent reoccurrence by keeping the body in balance. These approaches are safe for the baby, and can even be taken prior to an occurrence to prevent a yeast infection from ever happening.