areas of skin folds, yeast infections can occur on any part of the skin,” she said. “In fact, patients with certain immune conditions have been reported to develop generalized areas of infection.”
Yeast infections affect different parts of the body in different ways:
– Thrush is a yeast infection that causes white patches in your mouth
– Candida esophagitis is thrush that spreads to your esophagus, the tube that takes food from your mouth to your stomach. It can make it hard or painful to swallow.
– Women can get vaginal yeast infections, causing vaginitis.
– Yeast infections of the skin and hair cause itching and rashes.
– Yeast infections called invasive candidiasis and can affect the blood, heart, brain, eyes, bones, and other parts of the body and can be life-threatening.
– A yeast infection called candidemia, a bloodstream infection with Candida, is a common infection some people get when hospitalized.
– Men can get yeast infections too. Yeast infections can happen on the penis and scrotum too, but, it’s not as common. It can cause redness and irritation on your penis or scrotum.
– You can get yeast infections in armpits and grion.
– A baby’s ‘Cradle Cap’ is thought to be cause by yeast called malassezia.
So now that we know