Even though there are various kinds of yeast infection medication, not all of them are right for all those afflicted with a yeast infection. The medications provided for such patients depend on how badly the infection had run its course, and where the infection has set in. Usually, anti fungal medications are used to cease the fungi growth. These anti fungal medications can often be bought from any drugstore, and with no need for any special prescriptions.

Yeast Infection Medication: Controlling Fungal Growth

Anti fungal drugs, which come in pills, lotions, creams, vaginal suppositories, and troches, can be classified as Azole anti fungal medications, Polyene anti fungals, Echinocandin, and Allylamines.

Nystatin is a kind of Polyene anti fungal used for thrush and other mild yeast infections. Amphotericin B is another Polyne type, administered in more severe cases.

Azole anti fungals (those medications  that end with -azole) limit ergosterol production, which is needed for yeast cell wall production. The newest Azole is Triazoles, not as toxic and good in medicating anti fungal cases.

Amorolfine, Terbinafine, Butenafine, and Naftifine are all Allylamines that stop the production of squalene epoxidase enzyme, which is needed, too, in ergosterol production.

Glucan in the cell wall is stopped by Echinocandin anti fungals. Anidulafungin (Eraxis) used to be famous under the name LY303366; it’s a type of Echinocandin that’s good for treating invasive and oeasopahgeal candidiasis.

Yeast Infection Medication Worried: Over the Counter  Medications

Yeast infection medication you can buy over the counter is spreading like the fungi they are used to treat. This is good, since treatment after correct diagnosis can be done at home, and with no doctor’s appointments to set up.

It’s also bad, in that, so many women who buy such medications may not actually have a yeast infection. They, in all likelihood, misdiagnosed themselves and bought azole drugs and other yeast infection treatments and used them.

A study tells us that two-thirds of women who purchase such treatments don’t even have a yeast infection.