Author name: Gab Isner

What Is Intertrigo?

Just when your armpit begins to itch a couple of weeks ago and until now you nonetheless have it, but it gets even more itchy and a lot more persistent than just before and starts to have redness, then it may well be high time for you to stop ignoring it and assume its just an ordinary itch. Simply because you may have a fungal / yeast infection thriving there. You could be having a yeast infection called intertrigo.

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What You Need to Know On Balanitis

Before we get to find out what Balanitis is, we have to look at an infectious agent that, is, in fact a normal inhabitant in each and every person, looking for the right moment to strike and cause a havoc of the most irritating symptoms only those people who were affected can say. These are the fungus or yeast called Candida ablicans. Now, being an opportunistic pathogen or disease causing microorganism, this minute single celled fungi are found in moist areas of our body like the genitalia. This yeast can multiply rapidly especially if the person is unmindful of healthy and hygienic practices. Now, this yeast called Candida ablicans can actually infect any area in your body where it resides – like your mouth, your gut, your genitals. And a specific name is given to a Candida ablicans infection depending on the location it infects. If it affects the male genitalia, it is called balanitis.

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What You Get When You Have a Yeast Infection?

Yeast infections are one kind of infection you wouldn’t dare to have or even try. Once you have it, its not like your ordinary flu or measles because it just stays way, way longer and bothers and pesters you even more. Not to mention it is hard to get a cure for it, considering the fact that it is caused by a fungus (yeast is a type of fungus). And as we all know, fungal infections are just hard to totally deal with for good.

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Sclerotherapy – A Solution for Treating Spider Veins

By the advent of advences in dermatological research, what seemed to be an impossible treatment of skin disorder in the past can be achieved in just a matter of a doctor’s appointment. What once seemed to be a painful procedure, now anyone can take without any unbearable pain. Can this mean a solution to spider veins? Definitely. Countless people especially those who are medium to fair skinned are just distressed by the presence of unsightly spider veins in their skin. These are clusters of blue, red or purple veins that most commonly appear on the calves, thighs, and ankles. It is estimated that at least fifty percent of women are bothered with this common skin problem. But it does affect men as well.

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What You Need To Know About Candidiasis

Candida ablicans, a yeast and is a causative agent for a yeast infection called candidiasis, can actually spread a havoc of itchiness, inflammation and a burning sensation to different parts of the body. Especially the mouth (oral thrush), vagina (vaginal candidiasis) or the penis (balanitis). So to speak, candidiasis is a generalized term for the infection. It can affect other organs found in the Gastro Intestinal tract, and often the skin at various places, the nasal passages, sinuses, and sometimes the lungs. The infection is usually body wide and brain symptoms can be experienced due to toxins released by the yeast.

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