Pay attention now. You will have better long-term success with your cure if you understand how yeast lives in our bodies. 
o Candida albicans is a type of fungus93 that causes infection in people (pronounced can-dee-da as in Dawn’s song "Candida"). Older names for this fungus are Oidium Albicans and Monilia Candida.
o The study of fungi (the scientific plural for fungus) is Mycology, which comes from the Greek word mykos, meaning mushroom.
o Fungi are distinct and different from bacteria. They are more plant-like. They all are quite advanced organisms, some showing specialized cellular structure.
o All fungi need oxygen to survive.
o Most of the weight of a fungus is its outer cell wall, which is made up mainly of special sugars combined to form types of cellulose.
o Although a fungus is a living, plant-like organism, it does not have roots or leaves. It does not use the sun for photosynthesis. Instead, it takes all of its nutrients from its environment.
o The natural place for a fungus to live is in water, soil, and decaying debris.
o A fungus survives by secreting enzymes which break down substances in its environment so that the fungus can absorb them as nutrients.
Are you still with me? The description of how a fungus lives is one of the first things you need to know to begin to defend your body. You want to create an environment that is hostile to the survival of that fungus that is making you so miserable.
There are about 100 different types of Candida. The one usually causing a yeast infection is Candida albicans. Given that there are about 100,000 types of fungi, we should look on the bright side and consider ourselves lucky that only about 100 can cause infection in people. Of these 100, fewer than a dozen types cause about 90% of illness.
Yet knowing all this does not bring comfort when one of the little beasties has latched on to us.
What is comforting to know is that fungi can grow into yeast forms and mold forms — both of which we can control and destroy. Yeast refers to single cell growth. Mold refers to multicellular colonies. When it is in a yeast form, Candida albicans does not generally cause us problems. The problems begin when Candida albicans take on a mold form. Your infection has occurred because the living conditions for the fungus were right to turn the yeast form into the mold form.
You’re not going to enjoy reading this description of what is going on in and on your body, but read it you must. Once you understand what you can’t see but sure can feel, you will be even more convinced that you have to try and stick with an effective cure. So, take a deep breath and read on.
o When yeast turns into the mold form, it sends out branches or tubes called hyphe. These tubes can invade tissues and burrow into skin between the skin cells. Candida albicans lives with us normally in the yeast form and is not an infection. When Candida albicans is exposed to the liquid part of blood (serum) it changes to the mold form and sends out its tubes (hyphe).
o The hyphe secrete enzymes that break down the body’s cells, allowing the hyphe to absorb nutrients. The hyphe invade to find more serum and to produce more yeast cells.
o When the hyphe have invaded below the skin surface, the body normally responds to this invasion with swelling, heat and pain. White blood cells, antibodies and other factors in the blood collect at the site of the invasion and attack the invading mold.
o At the stage when Candida albicans has changed from yeast to mold form and invaded the skin, it causes an infection, referred to as Candidiasis.
o Depending on where the infection is, the condition can be trivial or life threatening. Wherever is it, the infection is making you feel just awful.
After reading the descriptions above, you will understand that what we call a yeast infection is actually a mold infection. The mold form of the fungus usually causes all the problems. Because most people usually refer to a fungal infection as a yeast infection.
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