The symptoms of thrush is there are white patches on both sides of the mouth and sometimes on the tongue. This disease is not serious and it can be treated easily. Even if you do not have a yeast infection, the baby may also be a thrush.

How can I reduce the chance of getting yeast infection?

You can minimize the chance of getting yeast infection by keeping your genital dry and your vaginal flora in the balance
If you can keep the skin of the perineum dry, vaginal flora in the balance. As yeast grow exuberant in warm, humid environment.

Below these recommendations were not conclusive evidence that can prevent infection, but it easy to grasp, it is worth to try:

• Wear cotton underwear, do not wear pantyhose and tight pants, especially those made of synthetic fiber trousers.

• Immediately take off your wet swimsuits after swimming. Change your underwear after each physical exercise.

• Try sleeping without wearing any underwear at night so air your genital area. If you are accustomed to wear clothes to sleep, wear a nightgown without underwear to allow air to flow in.

• Do not take bubble baths, do not use perfumed soaps, scented laundry detergents and those hygiene sprays. It is not sure that these things causes yeast infections. It is best to avoid using these as it will stimulate the skin of the perineum that cause you to have uncomfortable feeling,

• Gently to wash your perineum with warm water and never douche.

• Wipe your genital area from the the front to the back but not the other way round.

• Eat yogurt that have Lactobacillus acidophilus. In theory yogurt is conducive to maintaining proper bacterial balance and vaginal flora balance. Eating yogurt does not prevent yeast infection but many women believe that it does. Beside, eating yogurt can provide to you high-quality protein and calcium.

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.