I went to the OBGYN recently and vaginal candidiasis was shown on tests. I have this issue for 2 years now, I told her how it reappears every 2-3 months, how I had candidiasis on my tonsils as well and she told me it is possible my immune system doesn't respond to the infection and that it may be originating from the gut. Now, I have already Hashimoto's and, for a while now, I suspect I may have IBS as well, but didn't do any tests yet. My OBGYN said to follow the treatment she prescribed for 3 months and, if it reappears, to come back to her and look further into it. So, can my issues be caused by some form of IBS?

Hi all,

I was diagnosed with oral candidiasis by my dentist on October 25th. The cause is still a mystery (probably stress related). Essentially, I had white lesions all around the sides of my tongue as well as on the underside of my tongue. Tongue and mouth were sore. I have been taking Nystatin since October 26th, 5ml 4x daily. Apart from that I have followed the candida diet and cut out sugar, yeast, gluten etc. I have pretty much only been eating probiotic yoghurt, salads with spinach, mixed greens, cucumber, tomato and egg or chicken, and the occasional rice noodle dish. Also been taking Probiotics 2x daily and as of 1 week ago I've been taking 1x Centrum Multivitamins for men to boost my immune system and help things heal.

It is now almost 2 weeks later and the white patches in the mouth have almost completely disappeared, even after a full night's sleep I only have maybe one or two tiny white spots visible under my tongue.

My question

How soon can I re-introduce foods like bread/yeast-containing foods, cheese, sugary foods? I certainly don't want the infection coming back but I also would like to go back to a more normal diet as I have been very strict about what I eat while fighting this infection. How careful do I need to be about this? Anything I need to watch out for?

Additional question

Last week there were two instances where I ate meat with some spices (in one case chicken with white pepper, in another steak with italian seasoning). I never had allergy problems with spices before, I eat spicy food all the time, but especially after eating the chicken with white pepper my lower right lip, the inside in particular, started to swell up a lot and it took about 3 or 4 days to go back to normal. The second time I just ate some steak strips, lightly seasoned with italian seasoning (not spicy at all) and a similar thing happened to my lower left inner lip. Not as much swelling but a weird inflamed sensation, it felt like there was something on my lip but there wasn't.

Is this sensitivity to spices normal while suffering from candidiasis? Do I need to be careful in the future when eating spicy or seasoned food? I am little scared of pepper now and I absolutely love Indian food :(

Thanks so much in advance for any advice.

Basically what the title says. I'm a 38-year-old man. Had prostatitis last winter with painful ejaculation, frequent urination etc. The urologist gave me alpha-blockers and sent me on my way with a smile. A few months later, started seeing red spots on my penis head with inflamed foreskin. Panicked and went for a full spectrum STI test including PCR for HSV 1 and HSV 2. Everything was negative. Dermatologist prescribed clotrimazole cream for one month. Everything was fine until after a month, I stopped and the red spots returned. Dermatologies then prescribed itraconazole for 7 days and luliconazole cream. Symptoms disappeared temporarily and returned 2 weeks later.

Meanwhile my tongue is white and feels fuzzy. Oh and in the middle of all this, I had my first case of haemorrhoids and my ears don't stop ringing.

I feel totally deflated. Please help!

Edit: Prostatitis symptoms went away after a couple of months but now I'm left with all the other symptoms mentioned in the title.

Chances are that you do not have oral thrush. What many think is oral thrush, tends to be normal keratinization or buildup on the tongue. This sub tends to get an overwhelming amount of posts on this topic, so please utilize the search function to see the many different posts that will be similar to the one you might be interested in making.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dentistry/search?q=oral+thrush&restrict_sr=on

Age: 20

Sex: Male

Duration of complaint: as long as I can remember

Location (Geographic and on body): mouth only. I also have other body odors but they do not match the scent of my breath.

Any existing relevant medical issues (if any): mother has diabetes. I do not have any conditions that I am aware of.

Current medications (if any): none.

Include a photo if relevant (skin condition for example): I will take a picture if it is relevant.

Hello doctors and fellow redditors. I have had bad breath my entire life. My mom, whom has had diabetes now and while pregnant with me, has terrible breath. It's absolutely vile in the morning and pretty much all the time, even when I tell her to brush her tongue (which she doesn't do all the time). My sister has very pleasant breath. My brother's breath is normal, but he smokes occasionally and when he gets sick it smells like fish.

Up until around 11 years old, sometimes I wouldn't brush my teeth in the morning. I did not know to brush my tongue until I was about 13. I didn't start flossing until I was in high school. What came out smelled literally like shit. Now when I floss at the end of the day (everyday) and smell it, it smells like shit in between certain parts of my teeth.

Now when I brush, I floss first, brush with an electric toothbrush, and spent 5 minutes scraping my tongue with a Dr. Tung. I then use TheraBreath. This does not get rid of the odor in the back of my throat and it becomes worse throughout the day. There is also a bad taste on my tongue and it has a gross feeling to it.

The only time I didn't have bad breath (as in I didn't taste anything foul in my mouth) was when I was on a camping trip and I was drinking cold water. It was midday, hot as hell, I probably had bacon and eggs for breakfast and only water afterwards. I remember this very distinctly because it was the only time in my life post-puberty that I didn't have bad breath.

I have gone to a dentist for cleaning and they didn't identify anything wrong with my mouth. I'm due for a cleaning and I need to remove my dropping top left molar because I had my bottom left molar removed. It was removed because it grew in sideways and eventually became a cavity because I wasn't able to properly clean it.

If I don't eat anything during the day, acid reflux starts to really hurt my throat. I think it's both acid reflux and something bad in my mouth causing the smells. I also have dry mouth. Eating anything with sugar/dairy makes it

Dear Laypersons of /r/dentistry,

The number of 'OMG! Look how white my cheek or my tongue is. Is this oral thrush?' posts in this thread is quite alarming. Where are you getting your information from? The number of young healthy patients (that's probably you) in my practice with thrush is 0. You all just need to clean the soft tissue in your mouth better.

Sincerely,

One guy who if getting tired of the same posts over and over

I'm posting this for a friend of mine.

Male Caucasian, 62-years old. Average height and weight. About three months ago he had relatively minor surgery in his nasal passages. Following the surgery he was prescribed an antibiotic. He doesn't remember the name.

While on the antibiotic, he developed a severe case of thrush (oral candidiasis), not uncommon while on antibiotics. However, it's continued and nothing seems to help. It's gotten so bad that it has affected his eating habits. He either can't taste anything or regular food taste so bad that he can't eat it.

According to my friend, his doctor has tried fluconazole, clortrimazole, and nystatin. Nothing is working. He's started losing weight, in fact, because he can't eat. He's also trying "natural" remedies like yogurt, kefir, etc. No change.

His doctor is going out on a limb and is having him tested for HIV, which is almost funny if the situation weren't so dire.

Any suggestions??

Thanks.

I have Google News feeding me any and all stories related to Candida auris with a goal that these outbreak stories hit my radar faster than an Elon tweet surfaces on the radar of Tesla investors. If you are currently invested in or considering an investment in Scynexis, I suggest that you do the same with whatever news platform you use.

These outbreaks will continue to happen over the near-term as COVID keeps hospitalization numbers near all-time highs and as certain COVID treatments keep immune systems suppressed in small subsets of hospitalized patients. The white swan of this story is any outbreak of Candida auris, such as the one that just happened in late December (and is covered in the news story linked at the very bottom of this post) or the two outbreaks that happened this past summer in Texas and Washington, D.C. that killed several people.

The black swan event is an outbreak of multi-drug resistant (MDR) Candida auris that resists the echinocandin and azole antifungal drug classes. The headline for that event will read "Outbreak of Multi-drug Resistant "Superbug" Fungus Emerges in US hospital". This will be especially true if it finds a way to circumvent current hospital containment procedures.

What is Candida auris?

Candida auris is a species of fungus from the genus Candida. Candida cause a number of different fungal infections in the body, the most common of which is Vulvovaginal Candidiasis, also known as a vaginal yeast infection. Yeast infections are largely caused by the species Candida albicans, against which Fluconazole is highly effective at treating.

C. auris does not cause vaginal yeast infections (though many other species of Candida do and are worthy of attention for anyone trying to predict near-term annual sales numbers for Scynexis). Instead, C. auris has gained widespread attention for being a recent cause of invasive candidiasis which is an infection of the bloodstream and is highly fatal for those that get it (30-60% mortality rate).

Invasive candidiasis is caused by other Candida species, too. But, C. auris is particularly bad because some of its strains resist the first-line and step-down therapies for fungal infections of the blood. These patients typically have no other treatment option. Resistance to one of the leading antifungals for Candida species (Fluconazole) is almost an innate trait of C. auris at 90% resistance (I've seen as high as 96% in some research papers; either way

Key takes: Carbohydrate derived Fulvic Acid is a microbicidal compound that acts non-specifically on the cell wall membrane.

Although on it’s on it does not reduce the biofilm.

With help of others it can inhibit Candidiasis and other Candida biofilms successfully.

How? : Fulvic Acid is not held hostage by ECM β-1,3 glucan that sequesters antifungals and is acts as a “drug sponge” giving resistance to the Candida biofilm.

With the helps of others when fulvic acid gets in it can fight Candida effectively. Without Candida building resistance to it.

It starts to leak out ATP from the mitochondria of Candida within 1 minute after exposure. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Article insert - - “ CHD-FA, which has potent antifungal activity against C. albicans biofilms and other oral biofilms. Furthermore, we propose that this compound is effective through disruption of the cellular membrane and is unaffected by biofilm resistance mechanisms.

… CHD-FA was shown to kill rapidly and be similarly effective against both planktonic and sessile cells for all strains, whereas the existing antifungal agents exhibited increased resistance in the biofilm phenotype. This is in agreement with earlier studies by our group and others who reported high level azole resistance and decreasing sensitivity of polyenes and echinocandins (Kuhn et al., 2002).

Disruption of the biofilm was also assessed, but despite CHD-FA being highly fungicidal no significant reduction of the biofilm biomass was observed. Nevertheless, given the effectiveness of this compound then it would be possible to combine CHD-FA with a known C. albicans biofilm disrupting compound, such as lauroyl glucose (Dusane et al., 2008). Lauroyl glucose is a sugar ester that exhibits antimicrobial and emulsification properties (Ferrer et al., 2005), which contribute to the disruption of preformed C. albicans biofilms by up to 45% (Dusane et al., 2008). Therefore, these and other novel biofilm disruption agents could possibly be used to augment the activity of CHD-FA.

… PI uptake was in agreement with ATP release, again showing a time dependent disruption of the cell membrane. We demonstrated that C. albicans membrane integrity is compromised rapidly after exposure to CHD-FA, data supported visually from our fluorescent images showing PI uptake in as little as 1 min post-exposure (Ahmad et al., 2011).

To further test our cell membrane hypothesis we weakened the cell wall by inhibiting chitin biosynthesis using the chitin synthase inhibito

TLDR: There’s hope. I had chronic treatment-resistant BV/yeast. It cleared up after a year and I’ve been symptom-free for a year.

LONG POST

A little over two years ago, I started dating a guy who pressured me to have sex without condoms, along with him generally being unhygienic with toys and his own body. All of this led to a year long ordeal of chronic yeast infections and BV which were resistant to conventional treatment.

Prior to dating this guy, I had LTRs and casual hookups, who all pressured me to varying degrees to have unprotected sex, but generally stopped when I held fast to my condom-only rule (I never took birth control). This guy kept pressuring me even after I was clear about it and also pushed me to riskier behavior. I had always been careful with sex (and sex-related hygiene), and never had any issues with my genitals up to that point. I had swam in lakes and oceans, baked in saunas, sat in hot tubs with other people, taken oral and IV antibiotics, forgotten that I had a menstrual cup inside me for four days (so gross), but never once experienced even common issues like UTIs.

After two months of dating this guy and multiple doctor visits, it became clear to me that I was caught in a cycle of treatment-resistant candidiasis and BV, and he wasn’t going to stop pressuring me to have sex with him even while I was dealing with all of this, so I broke up with him. I stopped dating and having sex altogether. For a year, I stalked this subreddit, Googled and read scientific publications obsessively, tried all kinds of home remedies (ugh), spent hundreds on over-the-counter products, to varying degrees of success, since objectively, modern medicine was failing me and hardly anyone actually gives a shit about yeast infections or BV if you're not pregnant.

At the worst of this infection, I was living with my parents, dealing with a major breakup from earlier that year, unemployment from quitting an abusive job, and a chronic pain condition that was getting worse and paralyzing me. Now I had this infection that made me feel disgusting and isolated, that I couldn’t talk to anyone about, that I could barely afford to keep going to the doctor for, on top of the thousands that I was already spending out-of-pocket for the diagnosis and treatment of my pain condition.

I’m so grateful now that two years after breaking up with that guy and breaking up with dating and sex in general, I’m in a better place. In fact, I would say, my life has beco

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Fungal infections are common and can affect anyone. The different types of fungal infections range from uncomfortable vaginal yeast infections to potentially life-threatening fungal meningitis or invasive candidiasis. Fluconazole is a prescription medication that is commonly used to treat fungal infections.

What Is Fluconazole?

Fluconazole is a generic prescription medication that is commonly marketed under the brand name Diflucan. The medication was first approved by the FDA in 1993 and belongs to a class of antifungal medications called triazoles.

There are two generations of triazoles, and fluconazole belongs to the first generation of this class of medications. The medication is available in the form of both a tablet and a liquid and is typically taken by mouth once per day with or without food.

What Is Fluconazole Used To Treat?

Fluconazole is an antifungal medication that is commonly used to treat a wide variety of fungal infections. While fluconazole is perhaps best known for its ability to treat yeast infections of the vagina, it is also commonly used to treat yeast infections of the mouth, esophagus, throat, abdomen, blood, lungs, and other organs.

Additionally, fluconazole can also be used to prevent yeast infections. Patients who are undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy, particularly those who undergo these procedures prior to a bone marrow transplant, are considered to be at increased risk of developing a yeast infection due to their compromised immune systems during this time. Fluconazole can be given preventatively in order to help the patient avoid developing a yeast infection.

Fluconazole can also be used to treat fungal meningitis. While most people are familiar with bacterial meningitis, this infection of the membranes covering the brain and spine can also be caused by fungus.

What Causes Fungal Infections?

Anyone can develop a fungal infection, and the condition is extremely common. Common examples of fungal infections include athlete’s foot, ringworm, thrush, and vaginal yeast infection.

A fungal infection, also known as mycosis, can develop when a fungus that is not normally found in or on the body colonizes a specific body part and causes an infection. It can also develop when fungi that are normally present in the body start to grow out of

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

Hi all, I am suffering from IBSC for 20 yrs now. After going through all the standard tests (which came out negative) I am decided to go deeper and order detailed tests. I live in Czech republic and I found a clinic in Plzen who can perform these tests below, which are the ones I want to take. The price seems quite high to me so I am wondering if any of you can recommend a clinic in Europe where those tests are taken for a cheaper price.

1. Fungal lab tests from stool: Intestinal candidiasis (PCR): 5200 Kč / 200 Euro (Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Candida krusei, Candida parapsilosis, Candida tropicalis, The white Portuguese, Candida dubliniensis )

2. Fungal lab oral tests: BACTOdent Plus: 3850 CZK / 150 Euro (Identification of 11 periodontopathogenic marker bacteria: Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, Fusobacterium sp., Campylobacter rectus, Capnocytophaga gingivalis, Eikenella corrodens, Eubacterium nodatum, Parvimonas micra, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia, Tannerella forsythia, Treponema denticola)

3. Pathogens PCR tests from stool:

   a. FlorInScan by qPCR: 7800 Kč / 300 Euro Quantitative analysis of 20 intestinal anaerobic bacteria incl. an index of dysbiosis

   b. Viral gastroenteritis (PCR) : 3600 Kč / 140 Euro Adenovirus, Astrovirus, Norovirus G1 & G2, Rotavirus

   c. Bacterial gastroenteritis (PCR): 3600 Kč / 140 Euro Campylobacter coli/jejuni/lari, Clostridium difficile, EHEC, Salmonella spp, Shigella spp, Yersinia enterocolitica

   d. Intestinal parasites (PCR): 3600 Kč / 140 Euro Cryptosporidium spp., Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia

Thanks in advance

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

Introduction

Fungi are eukaryotic multicellular organisms with membrane-bound organelles, abundantly existing globally. They are one of the primary decomposers (saprophytes) and recyclers in the ecosystem, occurring from places like terrestrial soil, and air to aquatic water, nutritionally adept as symbionts or grow on dead organics matter. Correspondingly, their growth on organisms like on humans is not unusual, but circumstantial as they exist everywhere, and their spores can infect and grow on your bodies as simply as a consequence of immunocompromise or immunodeficiency. At other circumstances, their occurrence relates to poor hygiene and exposure to (percutaneous exposure or inhalational) or direct inoculation of fungal spores. (Feather, 2021)

The diseases caused by fungi are called mycoses or fungal diseases which affect the body and are traditionally classified into three basic categories which are superficial, subcutaneous, and systemic respectively, according to the part of the body they infect. Superficial infections include tinea usually occurrent on the skin as rash and allergies, while the subcutaneous fungal infections appear as internal tissue inflammation, and systemic infections usually affect a whole organ or the system such infections include pneumonia, pneumocystis, histoplasmosis etcetera. Coincidentally, the latter is the most virulent and deadly of them all, others may be treatable through antifungal drugs, usually topical for superficial and or oral for subcutaneous infections. ("Fungal Diseases Homepage | CDC", 2021)

Prevalence of Mycoses

A substantial amount of people is exposed to fungus due to its ubiquitous nature. The prevalence of mycoses or fungal diseases influences worldwide affecting more than a billion people annually. Exactly, a year ago in 2020, the annual death from fungal infections reached 1.7 million, which is a significant increase since 2017 when the deaths accounted for 1.6 million. The profusion in mortality rates pertains to the undiagnosed condition of the disease or a misdiagnosis, resulting in a fallacious medical treatment with an apparent deterioration of health and coincidentally result in a fatality. (Kainz et al., 2020)

Superficial Mycoses

These fungal infections are incident over the top layer of the skin or the dermal layer, consisting of fungi causing tinea of the skin that are normal fungal skin infections, Malassezia that is pigmentation causing infection, and sometimes candi

I’m really self-conscious when it comes to receiving oral as I think the smell from my vagina is bad. I currently work on getting rid of candidiasis (it takes quite a long time for me) and I’m not sure if I should let my SO go down on me, although I desperately want him to do so.

Any advice on what to do or similar stories are the most welcome