Male Yeast Infection Facts

Misunderstood and overlooked, male yeast infections are one of the best kept secrets in the health world.

Men can go through their entire life not knowing they are affected by a yeast infection. The difficulty comes in that there are not many ways to detect it in a male. When women get a yeast infection, it is vaginal most of the time. The vaginal infection is a sign that there are things amiss in the woman’s body. Men have no signs until other problems occur with their health.

The most common method of men finding they have a yeast infection is that their significant other has one and tells him he probably has it as well. If you are a man and you suspect you have yeast infection, see a doctor. If you have one, then chances are repeated sex will just transfer the yeast back and forth. Neither of you will ever get rid of it until they abstain.

Yeast infection and sex go together.  If she has a vaginal infection then when you have sex, especially unprotected sex, you expose your urethra to the fungus. Once inside the urethra, the next stop is the prostate gland.

Prostate problems are well documented and shockingly prevalent in me. The original yeast infection that travelled through the urethra originally could lay dormant in the prostate for years. When it activates itself, that’s when problems like prostate cancer show up.

There is a relationship between drinking beer and skin yeast on penises. Because the penis is outside the body, their could be dormant yeast on the surface of the penis, simply because the temperature is only in the high 70’s Fahrenheit or mid 20’s on the surface. But take that same yeast laden penis and put it inside an environment like the inside of a woman’s vagina, and the yeast will activate itself in the warmth and mucous membrane on the surfaces.

Dry cracked skin on the penis is the usual sign of a yeast infection. Erections can be very painful as the dried skin will crack.

Male yeast infections have a number of possible causes

1. Antibiotics
2. All forms of alcohol
3. Sex
4. Wheat and corn products
5. Peanuts
6. Barley

Everything except antibiotics and sex promotes candida infection by disturbing the balance between good bacteria and the candida albicans in the intestine. That affects the acidity and improves the chances of the candida yeast taking over.

An easy test for male yeast infection is the spit test. It must be done first thing when you wake up. Have a glass of water ready and when you wake up, spit into it. Over the next 15 minutes there are a couple of outcomes. Either the spit will dissolve and dissipate in the water. That means you probably don’t have a yeast infection.

An indication that you have a yeast infection is that the spit turns cloudy or develops strings or sinks to the bottom. That is a sign that you may have a male yeast infection. The difference between the two outcomes is very easy to spot.

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Alys G. Parant

Source: http://www.ReliefofYeastInfection.com

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