Natural Remedies for Candida Part 3
www.balancedhealthtoday.com www.balancedhealthtoday.com Three Ways to Kill an Infection News Item: Boise, Idaho (UPI—Firefighters went on a panty raid of sorts when a women called the department complaining of smoke in her attic. When firefighters arrived at the scene, they learned that the source of the smoke was a pair of the woman's panties in the microwave oven. The woman, whose name was not released, told firefighters she place the nylon panties in the microwave to get rid of a yeast infection. For the record, microwaving may be a fantastic way to cook vegetables, but it is not a sensible way to cure a vaginal yeast infection, as this news item attests. The microwave ""cure"" is the result of a study by University of Florida and Baylor College researchers who learned that the yeast-causing organism, Candida albicans, can be killed by microwaving. The scientists said women leave yeast spores in their panties when they have an infection. Normal laundering won't kill the fungus. But microwaving them, they proved, does. It also starts fires. Cooking your panties in the microwave isn't excellent advice, says Marjorie Crandall, Ph.D., a candida specialist who has written a booklet called How to Prevent Yeast Infections. What the researchers proved, she says, is that Candida albicans survives normal wash-and-dry cycles, once deposited in a women's panties, meaning it can reinfect the wearer. But most women don't want to take the chance of a panty raid in the kitchen. So what's ...
