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Home Remedies For Yeast Infections
Yeast Infection Home Remedies
What are yeast infections, and why are they such a problem? Before we learn more about home remedies for yeast infections, let's find out what the problem is first.
Yeast infections - What does yeast make you think of? Maybe it is waiting for the dough to rise while baking bread, brewer's yeast used to make fermented alcoholic beverages, or maybe it's just those little packets of "brown dust" your mother bought in the cooking aisle of the grocery store.
You are exactly right! That exact same yeast, or one of its microscopic cousins, is what causes so many women so much discomfort, grief, and to spend so much money on doctors and prescriptions for yeast infections. Men are not immune, but for some reason women are far more likely to experience a yeast infection than men are.
What is yeast? Yeasts constitute a group of single-celled fungi, a few species of which are commonly used to leaven bread (make dough rise) and ferment alcoholic beverages. A few yeasts, such as Candida albicans, can cause yeast infections in humans. More than one thousand species of yeasts have been described. The most commonly used yeast is a strain which was domesticated for wine, bread, and beer production thousands of years ago.
Yeast fermentation is the oldest and largest application of the use of microorganisms. In the absence of oxygen, fermentative yeasts produce their energy by converting sugars into carbon dioxide and ethanol (alcohol). Yes, this does relate to yeast infections and home remedies for yeast infections. Please keep reading!
In brewing, the ethanol is bottled, while in baking the carbon dioxide raises the bread, and the ethanol evaporates. In other words, yeast eats sugar and excretes carbon dioxide and ethanol. The specific use of the yeast determines whether the ethanol is kept (brewing> or discarded (evaporated during baking). (Portions of this definition are from an article licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Yeast".)
OK, so that's the definition of yeast. It helps us make food and drink, and doesn't really sound so bad. So what makes good yeast turn bad and cause a yeast infection? Discover what the problem is, and some very effective home remedies for yeast infections on the following pages.
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