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Candidiasis, or more generally known around the earth as a yeast infection, is a standard ailment that most of the populace of the earth will face in their life at one point or another. A lot of us think of a woman's ailment when we hear the words "yeast infection". The fact is that anyone, young and old, man and female, can contract this fungal affliction on lots of places in or on the body. Hands, fingernails, toes, feet, and even around the breasts are just some of the areas people can develop yeast infections. So now that we know that everybody can get a yeast infection practically everywhere, it's critical to know just what a yeast infection is. Mold develops when the yeast Candida albicans touches serum, a fluid in the blood. Upon touching the serum, yeast transforms into mold and dispatches tentacles from it's body called hyphe. The human body breaks down when the hyphe encounter the cells by dispensing toxic fluid. The hyphe can penetrate the skin. This is so they can find more serum and thus make more cells. If you have noticed an affliction that can be seen, this process has probably already happened. Candida is the species of the fungus that is the source of yeast infections. There are as many as a hundred different types of Candida and more than 100,000 kinds of fungus, but the body usually isn't harmed by the majority of these. Germs and plants have coincidental properties that vary from fungus. It is kind of a combination of aspects from both plants and animals. Though it definitely resembles a plant more, it does not depend on the sun's rays for the acquisition of nutrition, or the process known as photosynthesis. A lot like a parasite, it acquires it's nutrients from the environment around it. Fungi gets its nutrition by secreting enzymes that decompose and break down tissue so that it can be absorbed by the organism, kind of like a tick you might find attached to you out in the woods. Wet places, dirt, water, and instances of decay like in a rotting tree stump are all places fungus naturally thrives. Just like plants and animals, fungi needs oxygen to survive. Candidiasis is the result of fungus increasing and flourishing on the body. Interestingly enough, the term "yeast infection" is not an entirely accurate description of the ailment. You see, fungus can form into either a yeast form or a mold . Yeast is when single cell growth develops in the fungus. Mold is when multiple colonies of fungi cells develop. Regularly, the human body can fight off the yeast form of Candida albicans. We observe something is not right when the body begins to breakdown and the yeast develops into mold. If all these facts make you a little queasy, take comfort in knowing that most of the time with a bit of wisdom about what to do you can heal a yeast infection moderately easily using natural products. There are of course more serious cases, but usually a yeast infection isn't a severe risk to our health; it's just a real risk to our comfort. You should be capable of preventing it in the future after you've conducted a little research.
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