Thrush is a disease that is familiar to almost every woman around the world. Despite the seeming simplicity of treatment, coping with this disease is not easy. It is especially important to choose the right drug for fighting an annoying disease. In this article, we will talk about the flukostat - a popular remedy for yeast infection, how to use flukostat with thrush, and also consider the main characteristics of the drug.
Flucostat: composition
The active substance of the drug is fluconazole (50 or 150 mg in a capsule). This is a modern antifungal agent of a wide spectrum of action, effectively effectively rid of fungi of the genus Candida (they cause thrush).
Flucostat: contraindications
Contraindications to the use of the drug are hypersensitivity or intolerance of the components of the agent or azole compounds, lactose, including galactosemia and lactase deficiency, as well as glucose-galactose malabsorption syndrome, age up to 3 years.
If you are taking any other medicines, be sure to consult your doctor about the possibility of using flucostat. This drug is characterized by sufficient activity and can interact with many types of drugs.
Treatment of thrush with flucostat
Despite the fact that arguing about whether Flukostat helps with thrush, do not abate to this day, most of the women who have tried it, confirm the effectiveness of this drug.
Advantages of flucostat include the use method - due to the fact that it is used not locally but orally (inside), thrush pathogens are destroyed not only on the surface of the vaginal mucosa, but throughout the body. That is why after using flucostat, the risk of relapse is minimal. In addition, the normal microflora of the mucous membranes does not suffer from the use of flucostat, the growth of bacteria beneficial to humans is not inhibited by this drug. Due to this, the possibility of dysbacteriosis development is prevented.
The length of the course of treatment depends on the degree of manifestation and form of the disease. With thrush of mild and moderate severity sufficient
With thrush, as with all other sexually transmitted diseases, parallel treatment of all sexual partners is required. Each of your partners must take one capsule of the drug.
Sometimes the attending physician can recommend to continue the use of flukostat up to six months (one capsule once a week).