Just been on a course of antibiotics? Then there is a good chance that you may get a yeast infection. I know - sucks doesn’t it? Just as you are clear up one problem you are faced with another one. The reason this happens is that antibiotics are very good at killing bacteria in your body but they are so efficient that they kill off the bad bacteria (which is good) but also the good bacteria which can upset the balance in your vagina causing a yeast infection.

Treating a sinus infection with antibiotics seems to show very low success rates with many people, as the effect seems to be one of using a generic solution for a specialized problem. You see, the bacteria which infest our sinuses can be very varied. This is the same reason that there just is no one single remedy for the common cold.

Treating a sinus infection without antibiotics seems to be a better alternative today. Using antibiotics just doesn’t seem to cut it for most people due to the fact of bacteria’s resilience and adaptability to almost anything we can throw at it. It’s like the common cold situation; there can be no one single cure for it because of the rate at which bacteria can evolve. Each time a person catches a cold from someone else, it has already developed into a completely different strain of bacteria than it was when infesting the previous host. For this reason alone, treating a sinus infection without antibiotics is just a more logical approach.

Majority of cases have shown that antibiotics are great in treating sinus infections, but have little or no effect on viruses. Only bacterial infections of the sinus cavities must be treated with antibiotics. That is why The Center for Disease Control & Prevention advises strongly against taking antibiotics for a viral sinus infection. When the bacteria begin to grow fungus taking antibiotics could aggravate the problem. The commonly used antibiotics for treating sinus infection are amoxicillin, azithromycin or penicillin.