When you have a yeast infection, the first step in eliminating it is to first stop the painful surface symptoms that can me a major inconvenience. Before you run to the over-the-counter medications aisle at your local supermarket, you may want to consider stopping by the dairy aisle instead when you are ready to naturally get rid of yeast infection symptoms.

Yogurt contains friendly bacteria that aids in digestion and protects your digestion tract and you can use this to help you relieve your surface symptoms. It’s important to note here that you can’t use most yogurt that you can find at your local supermarket because it has been heated to extend its shelf life and the good bacteria has been killed as a result of that process.

The yogurt that you must use must not contain sugar, additives or coloring and has not been heat treated. You can find this kind of yogurt at your local supermarket.

Once you have a small carton of this type of yogurt, although you can eat it to help get a healthy digestive tract, we are not going to use it in this way to end the irritating symptoms that you are having.

Instead, males and females can apply it either topically using a thick layer of it on the affected area and leaving it there for an hour. Women can freeze some of the yogurt in a tampon applicator and insert it into the vagina for about 2 hours. Either way, the soothing and cooling sensation of the yogurt will get naturally rid of yeast infection symptoms.