Is it possible to get a Yeast Infection in the Mouth?
In fact a yeast infection can happen anywhere on the body, your skin, your genitalia (man or woman) and yes even the mouth. It is a fungal infection and when it is in the mouth it is also referred to as Thrush. Symptoms range from white, cream or sometimes yellow spots or blisters, pain when trying to swallow food, burning of the throat and mouth and bad breath.
Is it a Female Problem or Can Men Get a Yeast Infection Too?
More often than not when a discussion about yeast infections occurs it involves women as after all over three quarters of women will or have suffered from them. However they are not, as people believe, a female illness. Men can get them too though it is not as common as for a woman. Treatments are the same however, usually people choose over the counter anti-fungal creams.
Looking at Breast Yeast Infection
When a woman is lactating it creates the perfect environment for a yeast infection , warm and moist. Unfortunately when a breast is being used to feed a baby it also becomes a place where the candida fungus can commonly thrive. Candida albicans or monilia are other names given to a yeast infection and in this article you will find out what symptoms to look for and why it happens.
Learning about Having a Yeast Infection When Pregnant
Women are more prone to yeast infections than men partly because of the hormonal changes they undergo more often. Menstruation, menopause, birth control pills and also pregnancy make a woman more susceptible to the yeast infection at those times. Being pregnant makes you more likely to get a yeast infection because of all the hormonal changes your body is undergoing, which causes an imbalance.
Yeast Infection – Contagious?
Some people are unsure as to whether a yeast infection is contagious, and if so how contagious are. The answer I am sad to tell you, is yes they are and how much depends from person to person. Anyone can get them, they are not just a female disease. Contagion depends on various things such as how much contact was between the infected and non infected, what type of yeast infection it is and whether the non infected has a good immunity built up.
