Candidiasis of the mouth cavity. How to treat candidiasis?

Candidiasis of the mouth cavity is an unpleasant disease, a kind of mycotic infection caused by Candida fungi. This disease can affect people in any age. Still, it is more frequent with small children.

Candidiasis of the mouth cavity (oral moniliasis) can be easily seen by other people because it looks like white fur or flakes of snow covering the tongue, pharynx and mucosa of cheeks. If a woman suffered vaginal candidiasis during pregnancy, her newborn child will definitely suffer candidiasis of the mouth cavity. Still, in case of proper and adequate treatment candidiasis is not dangerous.

Adults may suffer candidiasis of the mouth cavity as a result of severe somatic diseases, lasting antibiotic treatment, inadequate personal hygiene, or radiation therapy. A characteristic white coat on the tongue gradually forms a thin film.

At first it can be easily removed but in case you postpone treatment of the disease the fur becomes thicker and darker. In case one decides to remove it bleeding ulcers appear.

How to treat candidiasis?

Candidiasis can be treated with the help of folk and medicamental preparations. Dentists recommend using mouthwastes and treating the mouth cavity with alcoholic solutions and herbal decoctions. Lasting infections are treated with the help of Levorinum, Nystatin, Levoridonum, Sanguiritin, and Decaminum. However, it is always easier to prevent the disease than to treat it. As a matter of fact, prevention of candidiasis is a rather simple thing to do. Just keep your mouth cavity clean, eat healthy food (including yoghurts and other natural products). Garlic, grapefruit juice and seeds, propolis, nut leaves, pepper, cowberries, and tea tree oil these products are widely recommended by dentists all over the world to prevent candidiasis as they have an antifungal action.