When you go through menopause, your menstrual periods stop and your ovaries stop making hormones, including estrogen. This leads to changes in the female reproductive system. For some women, these ...

While no foods or supplements can cure Candida overgrowth (candidiasis), you may help prevent it and manage symptoms with dietary changes like reducing sugar, refined carbohydrates, and alcohol and ...

Most yeast infections occur due to an overgrowth of Candida albicans. This fungus is part of a person’s natural microflora. The microflora refers to microorganisms that commonly live in or on ...

An oral infection can cause white patches inside your mouth, redness, soreness, and loss of taste. Yeast (Candida) naturally lives on your skin, along with other bacteria and fungi. In moderation, ...

FILE - A doctors holds a petri dish with the yeast candida auris in a laboratory of Wuerzburg University in Wuerzburg, Germany, 23 January 2018. (Photo by Nicolas Armer/picture alliance via Getty ...

A type of fungus called Candida albicans causes most yeast infections. Other kinds of fungus can also cause them, but antifungal treatments usually target only Candida albicans. If a different ...