Oral Yeast Infections: How They Affect You

Yeast infections, though easily treatable, are quite common in people of all ages and all walks of life. Often called thrush, oral yeast infections commonly affect children and newborns. These infections of the mouth are quite easy to identify. They can cause your tongue to develop a red border. This redness gets into your mucus membranes, and has the potential to cause other serious infections. Oral yeast infections are fungal infections that grow inside the mouth.

There are several clinical forms of yeast. These include:

• Angular cheilitis
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• Erythematous
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• Thrush or moniliasis

Angular cheilitis

Angular cheilitis can produce red bumps resembling pimples around the edges of the mouth and it can also collect on any part of the mouth, and produces a coating on the mouth or tongue. This coating can be either yellow or white. There may also be redness underneath this coating. An oral yeast infection, by its very nature, will thrive in a moist environment until treated. This type of oral yeast infection is related to some other conditions, such as Erythema chronic migrans, which produces skin rashes on different parts of the body.

Erythematous

According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Erythematous is an oral yeast infection that gets into the capillaries of the face or mouth. It can be caused by external sources, such as a sunburn, massage, or waxing hair.

Moniliasis

Moniliasis or thrush is a form of candidas that affects a large part of the population, and is actually quite common. Symptoms of moniliasis, include:

• Tenderness and burning around site of infected mucus
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• Itching

Moniliasis can produce a thick white coating on the surface of the tongue, and may cause red mucus membranes to darken in color. In treating these oral yeast infections, it’s important to remember that it is treatable, and antifungal medications usually clear it up.

According to experts, the thick mucus coatings produced by oral yeast infections can be wiped away. However, be careful not to keep the infected area clean at all times. Surprisingly enough, yeast infections can also show up in other areas of the body, including under the breast, where many women sweat. People who wear dentures are also particularly vulnerable to oral yeast infections. Infections often develop around dentures.

There are medications available over the counter that can effectively treat yeast infections. These medications include:

• Mycelex
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• Amphotericin B
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• Nystatin

All three of these medications are effective in clearing up yeast infections. Experts assert that Amphoterician B is quite strong. You need to be under a doctor’s care, when taking this medication. Mycelex, on the other hand, is somewhat milder.