What kind of bacteria is yeast and how can you get an infection of it? Does the infection correlate with sexual experiences or diet?
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It depends on what you mean. You will get better answers if you ask your question with slightly more detail.
If you mean a yeast infection like in a ladies vaginal area, there are several possible causes.
If you mean Candida is an over growth of yeast in your intestinal tract.
Both usually have more to do with diet than sexual habits…..but if a sexual partner has a yeast infection it is possible to pass a yeast infection to your partner during sexual activity.
The best way to reduce yeast in the body is to eat food with lots of probiotics and less sugar. Yeast feeds on sugar. Whatever sugar your body has – whether its natural sugars from fruits and breads or processed sugar from cakes and candy and soda or pure cane sugar from putting too much into your tea or coffee, and worst of all – alcoholic beverages *(especially beer) are fermented yeast products. I used to be a heavy drinker *(alcoholic – 5 yrs sober) but i did alot of research on this because i frequently had the symptoms associated with yeast infections and my research led me to believe it was candida overgrowth. I quit deinking for various reasons. Quit drinking soda and totally minimize sugar products and those symptoms have all gone away.
Yeast is not bacteria at all, it is a fungus. Yeast typically feeds off of carbohydrates(sugar). Yeast lives naturally in different parts of your body and is kept in balance by kinds of bacteria.
It isn’t necessarily a STD but it definitely correlates with diet. If someone takes antibiotics or does not eat enough food with healthy probiotic bacteria, their yeast-bacteria balance can sway in favor of yeast.
A vaginal yeast infection is not the only kind – you can get them in your gut, throat, and maybe a few other places too. It can happen in men and women. In fact, it’s the same strain of fungus – candida albicans – that is responsible for almost all kinds of yeast infections.
Edit: This should go without saying but men do not get vaginal yeast infections. They can get them elsewhere in their body, typically the digestive tract.
Yeast is a fungus, so it is a fungal infection. If yeast or any organism enters a suitable environment for culture and survival, then it will spread. This can include most typically the vagina or the mouth for another type of fungus. The human body has responses to the cultivation of foreign organisms such as yeast that present as generally unpleasant symptoms. It can be spread sexually or not as many women who abstain from sex are able to get a yeast infection.
Yeast are fungi, which are not the same as bacteria.
An infection really is a situation where some sort of living thing is someplace it should not be in the body and doing something it should not.
Most fungi don’t do much to the body in a bad sense, and simply colonize (aka. hang out) on body surfaces. But sometimes they can get into place they don’t belong. A good example of this is a yeast infection, where yeast grow too much in the vaginal canal, which can be irritating, itchy and have different smells. This can be due to exposures and person-to-person factors (ie. naturally protective bacteria in the canal, genetics etc.)
An important thing to note is that sometimes people can be so prone to infection that fungi that are not harmful to others become deadly. This is often seen in people on chemotherapy, or other medications that suppress the immune system. This can also happen with people with medical devices attached to them (ie. indwelling catheters).
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