Reply To: Infections and odor with white women

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~denise A.
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I wasn’t aware that it is a fact that white women are more prone to yeast infections(?) But, to answer part of your question… women get yeast infections most often as a result of taking an antibiotic. The vagina, mouth, intestine (and other body places) have naturally occuring bacteria and yeast that when ‘balanced’ keep each other in normal ranges. When taking an antibiotic the good bacteria is killed along with the intended infection bacteria and the yeast gets out of balance. Yeast infection can present as ‘thrush’ common in babies treated with antibiotics, intestinal yeast infection, skin yeast infection as well as vaginal yeast infection. Yeast infection alone doesn’t have an odor to it (so says the medical community.) A secondary infection may be the cause of the odor, I honestly don’t know about that part. Most doctors now will treat the ‘known’ side-effect of yeast inbalance at the same time as beginning anti-biotic a Rx is given for the coming yeast infection. This isn’t an issue just for women though, men have the same (bacteria/yeast) and it will get out of balance with use of anti-biotics as well but is usually confided to the intestinal or thrush locations of yeast infection.

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Name : ~denise A., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 41, City : Houston, State : TX, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,