Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Conditions Brought By Yeast Infection

Women often suffer with a condition, commonly known as a yeast infection. It affects fifty to seventy five percent of women world wide. The infection is cause by the overgrowth if the fungus Candida. It can be treated by different options.

Women of all ages suffer from this at some point and time in their life. It can be caused by many different things. It is not necessarily a sexually transmitted disease, as the fungus that causes this, already lives in the human body.

Women who have never had sexual intercourse also suffer from this condition. One of the causes that you would most probably not believe is frequent washing of the genital area. The vagina is surrounded by bacteria, this is good bacteria. When you wash too often, you eliminate the good bacteria and leave the genital area prone to yeast infections. This is because your body need the good bacteria to bring about the balance in your body. The fungus then starts to multiply and this overgrowth cause the itching and burning that is reported by women. You will also notice that the discharge is thicker and whiter in color.

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