Suffering with yeast infection is not only inconvenient but embarrassing also. It not only affects the genital area but can affect the other parts of the body too like armpits and breast cleavage etc. Yeast infections need timely and specific treatment for which it is must to recognize it. There are many remedies for it but the selection of these remedies and results depend upon the type of the yeast infection. To decide right course of action to cure yeast infection it is important to know, what a yeast infection looks like.
Some over-the-counter medications and ointments meant to be used for other purposes are used unknowingly to treat the diseases looking like yeast infections. If you use such medicines too much while you don't have it your body yeasts will become drug-resistant. In such a case, it will become very tough to treat the real infection.
In general, yeast infection looks like flat and red rashes. In the advanced stage of infection yellow pus also gets developed in the rashes. If it affects the genital area, the infected area becomes red and swollen. If this occurs in vaginal area, vagina remains extremely. Vaginal yeast infection makes sexual intercourse painful. Women suffering with yeast infections emit a white or faint yellow discharge, smelling like beer or bread.
If it occurs in mouth, it looks like white pimple on light swollen red spot. Mouth yeast infections are very painful and make eating and swallowing very difficult. This also takes place in the area between toes and fingers. Here, you can recognize yeast infection seeing dry and swollen patches of red color and feeling burning and itchy sensation.
Remember! Not all of the itching and burning sensations indicate the presence of yeast infection That is why people are advised to consult the doctor at the earliest instead of doing self-diagnose and self-treatment. A doctor can trace the real cause of the yeast infection and just by changing your lifestyle and habits, you can control or even completely remove this.
