2006-12-04 14:07:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
You mean like in a womans vagina?
Our body doesn't make that yeast, but it does occur naturally, and if I'm not mistaken, it eats up sugars that would otherwise go to feeding more harmful critters. In turn, the yeast is eaten by other helpful organisms, and these are eaten by other creatures, and so on and so fourth. Your body is host to a whole mini ecosystem.
When things get out of whack, either by too much sugar in the diet, or by killing off the yeast's natural predators, then the yeast grows uninhibited, and it gets irriating, and you get what is known as a yeast infection. A simple change in diet will ususally clear that right up though.
2006-12-04 17:26:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Recent antibiotic treatment?
Some drugs (e. g. steroids)
Weak immune system (infection or others)
2006-12-05 01:08:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
too much sugar in the diet
2006-12-04 22:16:05 · answer #3 · answered by shasha 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋