Candidose or thrush
The disease thrush or Candidose is an infection of the mucosas (sheath, oral
cavity or gullet) which is caused by the yeast mushroom of Candida Albicans.
The mushroom of Candida Albicans is established also in the natural body
flora of many people on the mucosa without triggering a disease. It only
then is a mycosis if the mushroom increases strongly in the mucosa. Through
this the natural balance between the microorganisms and the human organism
is disturbed. Persons whose body is weakened due to a disease belong to the
risk group, for example sugar and AIDS sick persons. Hormonal rearrangements
with women, e.g. during the pregnancy or at the taking of the anti baby pill
increase the infection risk.
The infection can come from the outside, be for example so made by direct
body contact with an infected person at the sexual intercourse. The prolonged
gestation can, how made by towels used jointly are by objects.
Mycoses can appear again and again. Drying the skin, special thoroughly in
the body folds to washing/Baden and by towels only used individually with a
good hygiene, cotton underwear, can be prevented to an infection well.
Symptoms
In the case of a Candida infection women feel a burning at the urination.
The mucosa of the vagina is reddened and swollen. A strong pruritus arises.
There is a whitish and crumbly discharge. In addition, the mucosa is covered
with a coating. Are sexual intercourse and introducing a tampon painfully.
The glans penis is reddened at men, another white and squamous coating arrives
in the later stage. Perhaps the foreskin is concerned. Strong pains can arise
at the urination.
Candidose can appear also on warm and wet body games, as in the skinfolds,
in the Anus area under the mamma or the armpit. If the disease remains untreated,
the causative agents can spread in the whole body. It even can get life-threatening
with immune weak people, such as in connection with AIDS.
Diagnosis
The pathogens can be proved by a smear with a following microscopical examination.
Therapy
Candidose heals in any case rarely, a physician therefore must be gone to.
First is after the pathogen looked. Then are the corresponds therapeutic measures
started. The medical treatment is carried out with sheath suppositories, ointments
and/or different antimycotics. These are medicines which are effective opposite
mushrooms. The partner must be co-treated jointly to avoid reciprocal new infections.
In rare cases the mushroom can spread in the whole body.
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