Vaginal Yeast Infection

Yeast or fungi, are a family of tiny organisms like the bread mold that waft around in the air and grow on foods they fall onto. One fungus, Candida albicans, finds life in the vagina ideal. It is warm, spacious, and mucous secreted by its lining is an abundant food for it. Diabetics with high blood sugar are even more favorable to the yeast as some of that sugar finds its way into the vagina and is a high energy food. (Pregnancy also results in sugar spilling into the vagina and yeast infections in pregnancy are therefore common).

Another instance which makes infection likely is after a course of antibiotics. Antibiotics don't kill fungi, only bacteria. Without bacteria in the vagina any Candida present gets all the food to itself and grows explosively.

Candida in small amounts is a normal finding in the vagina, mouth, and elsewhere but when circumstances allow it to grow like a weed, it then it is a problem and abnormal.

The symptoms of a yeast vaginal infection are:

• Itching of the vagina from the outside to deep inside.

• A thick white discharge into underwear that looks like curdled or ordinary milk.

• After intercourse without condoms the male partner may complain of temporary burning and itching of his ding-dong.

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