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Kefir For Vulvar Itching And Burning
November 2023
To all the wonderful women out there!
I also wish to share my story in order to help many who like me may be going through a same or similar problem. Since the past year I've been suffering of extreme vulvar itching which has recently gotten so bad that I hurt myself badly scratching to hard out of desperation. I tried applying black see oil, coconut oil, vaseline, castor oil, oats water baths, baking soda baths, and something else I'm sure I'm forgetting but can't remember what it is. I spent lots of money trying all these things and nothing ever helped for more than a couple of hours. Recently, as it happened many night, the itchiness woke me out of my sleep for me to start hurting myself again. I was desperate and in tears. The first thing I did was pray to GOD for his help and guidance. Next thing, I got up without disturbing my husband's sleep, as I didn't want to worry him at that time of the night, walked to my kitchen, and filled a paper cup with cold filtered water, went to the bathroom and washed my vulvar area with it which cooled it down a lot and relieved it quite a bit. I then pat dried the are and applied cold, fresh Kefir that we always consume for breakfast. I made sure my hands were very clean and applied a nice cooling coating of Kefir from the rectum area, moving forward and with the help of GOD, I went back to sleep and forgot about it for many, many hours. It was the first time in a very long time that I felt so relieved. I decided not to poke in there too much, and enjoy the relief the entire day, but repeated the operation just before bed, after I brushed my teeth. It was literally the very last thing I did after my nightly prayers and before jumping in bed. I slept all night without ever been woken up by it. I can assure you that I was doing so bad, that I noticed my delicate vulvar area had cuts/tears in it, red little dots all over the place, plus it was very feverish and all white in color. Most of that disappeared after my plea of help to GOD, then the wash with filtered water and the kefir application. May I also recommend to all the beautiful girls reading this, to go and lye or seat under the sun with as much skin exposed as possible, without the poisonous sun blocks which as all designed to generate skin cancer and other skin ailments thanks to their malignant components. SUN is a creation of GOD for our health. It generates LIFE. So why are we been told that it is VERY bad for us? At least 15 minutes each day, will heal you of many things, but also, will change your mood, get you rid of the blues, inspire you, help you open your pineal gland, and you'll get a nice even color in your face and rest of your body.
I give GOD thanks for this page, and the opportunity to share my case with many of you who will need it sooner or later, and for the other marvelous ladies who also shared their stories here to help others like me.
GOD BLESSINGS TO ALL!
Kefir
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29 y/o female - I've been having a CONSTANT itch down there for at least 3 months brought on by a mega-dose of chocolate and sweets during hurricane Sandy hibernation. Within six hours of eating FAR too much sugar, I was itching.
I have a history of long term antibiotics for UTIs and Throat Infections, and have a history of Yeast Infections, and about 50/50 success rate with OTC or prescription YI treatment.
Went to the doctor, came back negative culture for yeast or bacteria though both were seen on the slide. Dr. put me on boric acid saying it would work on both Yeast and Bacteria. It helped initially and then stopped. Also went on a 10-day round of Diflucan which also didn't work, the itch was still there.
Finally got very fed up and tried a Kefir soaked tampon (I'd tried yogurt with no luck). Itch was gone almost immediately. I'm now drinking Kefir and using it as a douche, and follow that up with inserting a tampon to keep it in. I've been itch free for three days now, and plan on continuing the Kefir douche and tampon for at least two or three weeks. I'm desperate to get rid of this, it's driving me insane.
Also have been on a low/no sugar, no wheat diet for Candida. I can't say for sure that's what this round is, even though it was brought on by sugar.
All I can say is that I'm clearly deficient in the healthy bacteria that colonizes the vagina. I've read that it takes 21 days for probiotics to colonize (no source, sorry - could be totally false info), so I'm going to drink the Kefir and do this for that long to give the colonization process a chance.
I've also read that yogurt and kefir DO NOT help re-colonize the vagina, as they need to go through the intestines to pick up the DNA in order to be able to attach to the vaginal cell walls (again, no source... Sorry, I forget! ). But, my suspicion is that while the probiotics in Kefir cannot colonize on their own in the vagina, they still work to crowd out the harmful pathogens, be it yeast or bacteria, and in this way work to relieve symptoms UNTIL the vagina is able to re-colonize on its own.
Here's to hoping. I'll repost in a month after I've been off the Kefir douches/tampons for a few days. Then I plan on doing once a week maintenance. Fingers crossed.
