subject: The Facts About Thrush May Help You Prevent It [print this page] There are many common medical conditions that we live with from day to day. For this reason, it's important to know the specific facts about oral thrush. This condition is very treatable and will not ordinarily be cause for grave concern. However, there are some serious diseases that can result in a serious thrush outbreak in the body. Those that have strong immune systems and good health will usually be able to keep the Candid albicans - which normally occurs in the body - in check and will not develop a yeast infection (thrush). Of course, since oral thrush is communicable, you can contract it from someone else and you can also give it to another person. There are three facts about oral thrush that you should learn and we will talk about them in this article.
You should make an effort to keep your body in an alkaline state as far as your pH is concerned. This is much healthier. Since maintaining an alkaline state in your body is also important to your overall good health, including helping to prevent thrush, it's vital that you find ways to keep your pH level on the alkaline side. Our bodies are designed with defense mechanisms that help keep infections, such as thrush, under control. Our bodies are pretty good at keeping everything in check in the form of healthy and beneficial bacteria that keeps the bad bacteria and fungi in control.
Your bodily chemistry and beneficial bacteria are what help keeps infections, such as thrush, under control. Therefore it's imperative that you think about anything you do that can upset the chemical balance of your body. Chronic stress falls into that category. That is why you should work to keep things in check in your everyday life.
It isn't necessary for someone to have a serious, or chronic, health condition in order to develop oral thrush. There are many other ways this infection can be contracted. In spite of that fact, it is still an infection, and there are those who have health conditions that make them very vulnerable to contracting an oral yeast infection. To explain further, many secondary health issues afflict those with AIDS or HIV and oral thrush is no exception Any factor that results in the weakening of a persons immune system, makes the person more susceptible, and at risk, for developing an oral thrush infection. So others in this group will include cancer patients who are receiving chemotherapy treatment.
Have you had thrush - or has your baby had oral thrush, or diaper rash? If the two of you have had a bout with thrush, there are steps you can take to prevent it from happening again. Anything that has been in the baby's mouth should have all traces of the infection eradicated by being boiled. To really protect your baby, try to remember all of the things the baby might have put into his or her mouth during their oral thrush - teething rings, pacifiers, toys, and bottle nipples, for example.
Don't forget to include the utensils your baby uses to eat with, and the "Tommy Tippee" cup he or she drinks out of, if appropriate. It's probably better to purchase a new spoon if the one you used when the baby had thrush was one of those that are covered in soft rubber. You might think it's too much work to have to boil all of these items, but think about how annoying life was during the actual infection.
Oral thrush in both adults and infants is one of the most common forms of this condition. Nonetheless, if you take the time to learn what you can about thrush, this information can be very useful should an infection occur. If you know someone who has it, then you would want to know that you can contract this infection from them. This reason is more than enough to encourage you to be prepared for a thrush infection by learning as much about the condition as you can.
