Thrush Treatment - What is the Best Treatment For Thrush?
By Rebecca Haworth

If you are suffering from thrush, you are not alone. Thrush has become a virtual epidemic over the past few decades, due primarily to skyrocketing rates of antibiotic usage combined with dietary and other factors.

However, knowing you're not alone in your suffering is not much consolation, is it? Thrush can be painful, irritating, chronic and frustrating - I have no doubt you want a thrush treatment that works and you want it fast.

Regardless of what type of thrush you are suffering from, whether it's oral thrush, baby thrush, breastfeeding thrush or vaginal thrush, there is one underlying cause: yeast. The yeast organism candida albicans is responsible for the itching, pain, irritation and other symptoms you may experience.

In looking for the best treatment for thrush, it's important to consider the underlying cause that allowed the yeast to grow out of control and cause thrush in the first place. After all, yeast is everywhere, but some people get thrush and others don't.

There are a few main causes of thrush:

1. Antibiotics: Antibiotics are the number one contributing factor to thrush. This is for a couple of reasons. First, antibiotics wipe out your natural yeast defenses. For example, so many babies are exposed to antibiotics these days during labor and delivery that baby yeast has become increasingly common. Second, researchers have recently discovered that antibiotics have yet another unwanted side effect: they suppress the immune system.

2. Steroids and Other Prescription Drugs: Corticosteroids, because they suppress the immune system, are another primary cause of thrush. Chemotherapy drugs and other pharmaceuticals may also be involved.

3. Prematurity/Weakened Immunity: In babies, premature birth may be a factor as is weakened immunity for any reason, including old age, illness, surgery, etc.

So what's the best treatment for thrush?

After 15 years of searching for a thrush treatment that actually works, permanently, and is non-toxic, I've found that the only way to truly get rid of thrush for good is to cure the underlying imbalance that allows the yeast to grow out of control in the first place. Without curing this imbalance, whether you kill the yeast naturally or with drugs, it will still grow back.