Natural Solutions for Women’s Pesky Health Problems

by Kathryn Berg | Jul 20, 2019 | Fishy Odors, Women's Health, Yeast Infections

As we age, health issues pop up. But when you reach perimenopause or menopause, anything that comes up seems double the trouble. “OK. I’m dealing with all these other issues, so I can possibly else go wrong?” And then some annoying little pesky thing comes up.

Itchiness

The first annoying little pesky thing you might have experienced is itchiness. It might seem like maybe you have a vaginal yeast infection.

Or maybe not.

You just aren’t sure.

Maybe it doesn’t seem like the ones you used to get so that confuses the situation.

Sometimes people will buy over-the-counter products and they’ll help for a little bit, but once you stop using it comes back.

I have a really good solution for that. It is a probiotic called Saccharomyces Boulardii. And this is a great one for anything to do with yeast. It is a probiotic is made out of a different type of yeast and it helps can you get those critters. And by the way, it’s also helpful for traveler’s diarrhea or gastroenteritis (stomach flu). It’s really a very useful probiotic.

Here is how you should take it for a suspected yeast infection, or just itchiness.

Take one capsule twice a day for a week.
Then take one capsule once a day for an additional week.

It works really pretty quickly but you want to continue to take it beyond the point where you have symptoms to make sure that they don’t come back. There is no risk in doing this.

This process is also helpful if you get a yeasty overgrowth on your skin or mouth. You can boost the healing process on skin related outbreaks by also putting coconut oil on the yeasty eruptions.

Works for Thrush Too!

For those of you who might know someone who is nursing and develops thrush, this is an another use for Saccharomyces Boulardii. Follow the same instructions as indicated above.

Just a note about Saccharomyces boulardii: It doesn’t affect the gut in anyway other than healing it. Some people are negatively impacted by probiotics. You don’t have to worry about that happening with this one.

A homeopathic solution to add into the mix for yeasty outbreaks is to include Homeopathic Borax 30c. Take 2-3 doses per day until the symptoms are gone. Unlike the Saccharomyces Boulardii, do not continue taking after symptoms have healed. Click here to learn how to take homeopathic remedies.

Fishy Odor?

One of the other things that comes up for women, seemingly out of the blue, is bacterial vaginosis, which is an overgrowth of bacteria in the vagina. It is bacteria that is typically there but you just have too much of it.

You know you have it when you have a really fishy odor that comes out, which is no fun at all.

There are two probiotics that are specifics for women’s reproductive tracts: Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus Reuteri. There are a couple of different ways you can purchase these probiotics.

One way is a product by Garden of Life and it’s a woman’s daily probiotic. If you’re used to taking a probiotic, you might want to switch to this one, at least for the time being, because it’s got those two additional women’s probiotics in it. It actually has 16 different probioticstrains.

If you want to take these but you don’t like the effects probiotics typically have on your digestive system, then you could purchase a product called Fem Dophylus. That one is just those two as opposed to 16 different strains.

You could take Fem Dophylus orally, which is what I would do with the Garden of Life product with the 16 different strains. But if you get the Fem Dophylus product you can also use it as a suppository and insert it vaginally at night before you go to bed. You don’t want to have it fall out during the day, so night is best. You’ll need to do that for a week or so. After the first day you’ll notice a difference, but, like with the Saccharomyces, you really need repeat it over the course of time to make sure everything is gone.

Watch What You Are Wearing

Finally, I encourage you to watch what you are wearing. With leggings being so common now, it seems that there is more perspiration with the tight-fitting polyester clothing, and these two annoying things are more likely to crop up. So look for leggings that have some cotton, such as jeans with Lycra in them. There are more knit leggings that are breathable too. This will help to prevent the itchiness and odor and also help it heal faster if you do develop it.

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Meet Kathryn Berg the Classical Homeopath at Lotus Homeopathy, Inc.

Some of you know me, others of you may have heard of me. And for most, you probably have no clue about me or my business. So I wanted to take a few minutes to introduce myself, my family, my business, why I am a homeopath and how I became a homeopath—not necessarily in that order.

Like many people, I found out about homeopathy accidentally. I fell down while walking my Akita pup on an icy sidewalk on a typical Minnesota winter day. I was scheduled to go to a friend’s house later that day, so when I did, I asked her for some ice. You need some Arnica, she told me. Arnica? What’s that? She explained that Arnica is a homeopathic remedy for trauma.

At the time, the only place to get homeopathic remedies was a book and herb store in South Minneapolis. So I went there to get some. When I got there, I decided I should read some books so I actually knew what I was doing. I left with the Arnica 30c and three books. By the time I got done reading them, I knew I wanted to be a homeopath.

It was only several years later that I realized that I was attracted to homeopathy as a profession because I am a problem solver. It is what drives me. There is nothing like a well chosen homeopathic remedy to solve problems.

At the time I decided to become a homeopath, there wasn’t even a school here in in Minnesota. But eventually, my homeopath and his business partner started the Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy. I was a graduate of the third class. At the time I went there, it was a part time program taking three and a half years! Since then I have studied with numerous other well known and respected homeopaths in continuing education studies.

While I do work with all sorts of folks with a variety of conditions, I really have studied how to treat people suffering from PTSD, health issues related to aging women, and children’s health issues of all sorts, including autism. I have also been successful in removing blockages to healing due to suppression of symptoms by western medicine. I chose those specialties because people really suffer who have those forms of dis-ease, and Western Medicine doesn’t seem to have much of a solution for them.

After over twenty years of practice, I still get excited for clients when a remedy has helped them heal.

So that is about my business. Now, a little bit about me.

I have two adult sons in their early twenties, so I have shed the title of “Soccer mom”. My husband and I are empty nesters living in Woodbury, MN. For fun, I like to play piano, sing, sew, garden, hike, and travel. I am in a community choir. I also enjoy cooking healthy meals and, out of necessity, am an expert at cooking for special diets.

If you have any questions about homeopathy or my approach to homeopathic case taking, please feel free to put some questions in the comments below.

If you have a health issue you need help with, please click the Book Now button on my Facebook page or Main page of my website and schedule a complementary consult to see if homeopathy can help you!

Thanks!