Questions About Yeast Infection???

[anjelgottaquestion]

Hey everybody...I have another question.I had sex with my bf and now (2 days later) im noticing cottage cheese like discharge and slight itching.Im thinking that it is from a yeast infection however we used condoms.Is there any way i could've gotten it from the condom (it had spermicide and we've never used those before)??Also can anyone tell me what REALLY causes these infections.ok thanks.

[refugee]

try also eating yogurt in your diet. their is a bacteria in yogurt that keeps the bacteria in your body that causes a yeast infection low. therefore reducing the chances of a yeast infection.

[HHH,MD]

Unfortunately, the yogurt business is an old wives' tale.  The myth evolved because yogurt and other dairy products contain lactobacillus ("lacto" means milk-associated), and lactobacillus is normal in the vagina and helps protect against yeast and other infections.  But the lactobacilli in milk products (L. casei) and the vagina (L. crispatus and others) are entirely different species and the yogurt strains do not survive in the vagina and do not protect against any vaginal infection.  The same applies to lactobacillus products purchased in health food stores.  In the past decade, research work has attempted to devise a lactobacillus strain that will survive in the vagina and prevent infections, but so for unsuccessful in producing a product that works.

HHH, MD

[MandaJo111]

I get a yeast infection every time I take an antibiotic.  It comes without fail.  Differnt changes in your habits can cause them too.  They say to wear breathable white cotton underwear as well as they do not harbor bacteria as much.  

Go to a doctor and make sure, but everything should be alright.

Take care,

Amanda

[HHH,MD]

Yeasts exist normally in the vaginas of some women (and probably all women at least some of the time).  Generally they are believed to get there from the rectum, where they are even more commonly present.  It is possible to acquire yeasts from a sex partner who is colonized in his or her mouth or genital areas, but this explains few  symptomatic yeast infections.

Symptoms usually do not result because of newly acquired yeast, but because something changes to modify the body's reaction to them.  The exact causes of those changes are something of a mystery--lots of theories and possibilities, but generally difficult to pin down in any particular case.  Changes in sexual frequency, antibiotic use, subtle changes in persons' immune systems, perhaps diet, and others all have been implicated.

If you have had professionally diagnosed yeast infections before and your symptoms are typical of those episodes, your self-diagnosis probably is right.  But other vaginal and cervical infections can mimic yeast symptoms, so see a health care provider if you have any doubts about the diagnosis.

HHH, MD

[Jenni6485]

A yeast infection (also called candidiasis) is an overgrowth of bacteria that causes vaginal irritation or vaginitis. All healthy women have a certain kind of yeast in their vaginas, but sometimes it grows too much.
Try to drink lots of water, go pee before and after sex. You might have gottn it from the condom, you could have a latex allergy, or just real sensative at the time you used one. Sex does have a way of making bacteria worse.
You should get some monistat, or go to the clinic for some cream... Take care of it asap because if you waite around, it could get hanus, and spread everywhere, and you'll be miserable.
UTI's are partners in crime with yeast infections, so drink LOTS of diet cranberry juice, or diet cranapple juice (better off with less sugar)
Okay, so hope all goes well