Yeast Infections During Pregnancy

What is a yeast infection? Yeast infection is a common vaginal infection and is commonly found in woman who are pregnant. These yeast infections also known as Candida vaginitis or vaginal candidiasis. The most common source of yeast infections is Candida albicans.

During pregnancy, pregnant woman body’s estrogen levels are higher than usual; this will increase more glycogen in your vagina. The tendency of growing yeast is higher due to the increase of glycogen. Researchers believe that estrogen may directly affect the rapid growth of yeast and thus easily attached to the walls of the vagina.

As you may be taking antibiotics, this also play apart of getting yeast especially so when you take it frequently. This is because these drugs can kill other needs in addition to kill the bacteria, they may also affect the normal vaginal you have the protective effect of the growth of bacteria, thus undermining the local micro-ecological vagina, resulting in partial dysbacteriosis .

What are the symptoms of having yeast infection?

If you appear to have symptoms of yeast infection , it will torture you for a long time until you are cured. But sometimes this symptoms will naturally disappear. The symptom of yeast infection includes the following:

- itching, pain, redness and burning sensation on the lips of the vagina and sometimes swelling symptoms appear.

- there is no smell, vaginal discharge is usually white, thick, like cheese like secretions, sometimes green, rubbish-like secretions.

- during sex intercourse you will feel uncomfortable or pain.

- a burning sensation when urinating

What to do if you feel you have yeast infection?

If you feel you contacted yeast infection, you should go to your gynecologist to check it out. Doctors will take some of your vaginal secretion samples, conduct inspections to get a clear diagnosis whether you contacted yeast infection.

There are some woman who thought they have contacted it, treat the infection by getting their own prescription without doctor’s diagnosis as there are anti fungal prescription available outside. It better not to do that because your symptoms may be caused by other reasons, for example, there may be some kind of sexually transmitted diseases, rather than yeast infections.

Research shows that most woman believe that they have a yeast infection and self-treated herself, often can not find the real cause, thus delaying the correct treatment of the time.

If you have been diagnosed with yeast infection, doctors will open for you a number of safe prescription that can be use during pregnancy. During pregnancy, you should not use oral antifungal treatment of vaginal yeast infection. For most yeast infections, the drug, the ointment containing clotrimazole and suppository is more effective that drug that contains nystatin.