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My doctor tells me I have developed a yeast infection in my rectal area. I am so confused about what he is telling me. He says no more baby wipes, and to stop using the Balmex ointment I use as my barrier cream. Before, he told me to protect my bottom with barrier ointment, now he says I am keeping the area to moist. I thought I was doing fairly well 10 months post surgery other than pain.
Any input would be helpful, I am so confused.
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I had the same problem. Your doc is right - where you can, avoid barrier creams as these make it worse. The trick to solve this in my case was to use salt water when cleaning the area down there and to take a probiotic daily such as acidophilous (sorry probably not spelt correctly). Don't wear undies at night - let the air get to it and like the earlier post suggests dry down there with a hair dryer everytime you wash. If can avoid washing too frequently all the better. I also used Canesten internal cream in the area - the pharmacist said it would be fine when things were really bad.

Once the yeast infection clears up you will find burning / itching reduces and you wont need a barrier cream unless you eat something really naughty.

The trouble with yeast infections is that they are very difficult to distinguish from the usual "butt burn" and it took me weeks of figuring out what it was - you're lucky your doctor has got to the bottom of the problem (no pun intended).

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