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How To Treat Yeast Infection Primarily In Skin Folds?

This is day 6 of being on Diflucan pills and Nstatin cream to treat a yeast infection primarily in skin folds. (I am 5'3" and weigh 200lbs.)
The infectious areas have only widened and are very sore and raw.
Do I need to be seen again by my family DR.
Tue, 18 Mar 2014
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Hello,
Welcome to HCM,
As you are having fungal infection for which your treating doctor as advised oral and topical antifungal drug.

As your symptoms are not comings down and it is going worse. First we need to confirm our diagnosis wether you are having fungal infection or not.

If it is a confirmed by skin scraping and wet mount that it is a fungal infection, you may be resistant to these antifungal drug and you need to take other group of antifungal drugs.

In addition to this you need to take antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections.
Thank you.
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How To Treat Yeast Infection Primarily In Skin Folds?

Hello, Welcome to HCM, As you are having fungal infection for which your treating doctor as advised oral and topical antifungal drug. As your symptoms are not comings down and it is going worse. First we need to confirm our diagnosis wether you are having fungal infection or not. If it is a confirmed by skin scraping and wet mount that it is a fungal infection, you may be resistant to these antifungal drug and you need to take other group of antifungal drugs. In addition to this you need to take antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections. Thank you.