High blood sugar affects almost every part of your body. When it comes to genital health as a diabetic person, hyperglycemia can also lead to yeast growth.
Yeast infections are highly treatable, but high blood sugar levels can be very uncomfortable, stressful and inevitably repeated.
This article explains how diabetes causes frequent yeast infections, how to treat yeast infections, and what you can do to prevent them in the future.
What is yeast infection?
Yeast infections occur in the vagina and are also known as “vulvaginal candidiasis.” Planned parent-child relationship.
Yeast is an important part of a healthy vagina, but being too much is a big problem. If healthy amounts of yeast in the vagina become uncontrollable, it can lead to extremely unpleasant symptoms.
Yeast is technically a fungus, and most yeast infections are considered “fungal infections.”
Some yeast infections can be “bacterial” infections, but these are less common.
Yeast infections can occur in other parts of the body (mouth, tongue, throat), which is medically known as “thrush.”
Symptoms of yeast infection
The oldest indications of yeast infections are easy to ignore or dismiss. Within a few days, these symptoms escalate as soon as the amount of yeast increases. Some of these symptoms can be unbearable if left untreated.
- Itching inside and around the vagina
- Burns the vagina and its surroundings
- White, bulky cottage cheese-like substances inside and around the vagina
- White discharge
- inflammation
- Redness
- If there is a smell, it is mild
- The stinging sensation when you urinate
- Burns pain during sex
I wish you the best do not have Injure the affected area and rub it aggressively. Excessive manual stimulation of this area can create small cuts in the very soft skin within the vaginal area, which can exacerbate the infection.
You should contact your doctor immediately if your symptoms include:
- Yellow discharge
- Strong, dirty smell
- heat
- vomiting
- Bloody drainage
- Increases urination
- Stomach or back pain
Causes of yeast infection
Some women are simply more prone to yeast infections. Most women experience at least one or two in adulthood.
On the other hand, women with diabetes may experience yeast infections more frequently due to short- or long-term hyperglycemia levels.
- High blood sugar levels
- Normal changes in hormone levels (menstrual cycle or during periods)
- Birth control
- Antibiotics
- Cortisone injection
- Weakening the immune system
- Chemotherapy
- HIV/AIDS treatment
- Anabolic steroids
- Irrigation
- There is too much water in the vagina area from tight underwear, damp panty liners, damp menstrual pads, sweat, wet swimsuits, etc.
- Responses to sexual partners’ genital chemistry
- Reactions to Sexual Partner’s Semen
- Sex with someone with yeast infection
Men may develop yeast infections on the test circle or penis when having sex with a woman who has it, but this is rare.
Yeast infection diagnosis
Symptoms of yeast infections are generally obvious and difficult to confuse with another condition, but it is recommended that you contact your medical team to get a proper diagnosis.
They collect discharge swab samples to confirm that they have a yeast infection. This determines whether it is a fungus or a bacteria.
Why diabetes increases the risk of yeast infections
Yeast loves sugar. Just like the chemistry of yeast in bread bread, yeast consumes sugar, which promotes its growth.
If your blood sugar levels are high for a long period of time or are surged repeatedly over several days, you will no longer be able to control yeast growth.
250 mg/dl is the general threshold when your body begins to wrestletter with normal tasks. For example, exercise. Sticky “wandering” above this level is an ideal environment for yeast growth.
If levels are well above 300 mg/dL, yeast development is almost inevitable if blood glucose levels do not improve immediately.
Every vagina always has a normal and healthy amount of yeast, but infection occurs when the amount of yeast is too large or too fast.
It is said that most women (even women without diabetes) will experience at least one yeast infection in their lifetime, but people with diabetes will experience much more.
Excess glucose in the bloodstream when blood glucose levels are long (even for just a week) actually feeding the growth of the fungus.
Yeast infections have easy-to-use treatment options, but people with diabetes continue to develop them until their blood sugar levels return to a healthier range.
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Treatment options for yeast infections
There is Some treatment options Depending on the severity of the infection, how do they respond to yeast infections, and how do they respond to one type of antifungal and another type of antifungality.
Remember that if your blood sugar levels continue to exceed 250 mg/dL, your yeast infection will return. If blood sugar levels are not lowered, antifungal properties will not completely treat yeast infections.
Over-the-counter antifungal drugs
These medications can be in either tablet form or cream. Both come with a tampon-like plastic applicator tube that pushes capsules or cream into the vagina where the yeast is growing.
You will see options for treatments of “3 days”, “5 days”, or “7 days”. A 3-day treatment should help with the average yeast infection.
In the US, the available brands are:
- Miconazole (Monistat 3, Multitat 5, Monistat 7, Micon 7)
- Tioconazole (Monistat 1, Visita 1)
- Butconazole (dinazole 1)
- Clotrimazole (Mycelex-G, Femcare, Gyne-Lotrimin)
- Nistatin (Mycostatin)
- Terconazole (terrazole 3, terrazole 7)
If miconazole does not cure an infection, we know that tioconazole is. The opposite is also true. Most people respond better than one.
Prescription antifungal medication
If over-the-counter remedies don’t bring you relief within a few days, it’s worth calling your doctor or about prescription strength medication.
The most common brand in the US is fluconazole (diflucan).
If the yeast infection is persistent or frequent, you should definitely contact your healthcare team. Chronic yeast infections can be a sign of something else.
Relieves itching
These drugs cannot cure your yeast infection, but they can help reduce external burning and itching while treating the infection with another drug.
In the US, the available brands are:
- Vagisil (wipe or cream)
- Vagican
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Preventing yeast infections
In addition to keeping your blood sugar levels in a near-healthy range, Planned Parenthood recommends the following to reduce your risk of developing yeast infections:
- Avoid vaginal scented tampons, vaginal deodorants, or other products that contain perfumes and artificial scents.
- Do not use perfumes or scented bath products such as soaps, laundry detergents, bubble baths, bath bombs, and colored toilet paper.
- Never “douche” it. Dutch practice actually washes away healthy, organic liquids in your vagina and disrupts its natural balance. Your vagina is a “self-cleaning” organism. Do not interfere with that natural process unless you are dealing with a clear state.
- Do not sit in damp underwear or swimsuits for long periods of time.
- Change your underwear after exercise and don’t sit in sweaty, damp underwear.
- Regularly change tampons, pads, menstrual cups and liners.
- Wash your vagina with water and mild, unscented soap.
- Wipe the “back from the front” and do not transfer bacteria from the anus to the vagina.
- Consider that the lubricant or sperm you are using may be the cause of the infection. Also, if you have a recurring infection, consider switching.
- Look at your vagina in the mirror health So you know what it looks like do not have.
- Contact your healthcare team (primary care or gynecologist)
- We strive to maintain your target range and your blood sugar levels HBA1C It’s below 8.0%, ideally below 7.0%.
Yeast infections are not a picnic! As people with diabetes, they can be another motivation to manage our blood sugar levels as much as possible!
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