To expound upon this hotly debated question, I have written this article. Most people will say that it is a very cut and dried answer and that the answer is no. But yes, you can actually pass on a yeast infection to another person. It probably sounds strange, but here is the explanation. If you have a yeast infection and another person comes into contact with your yeast they will get yeast on them. This will not instantly give them an immediate yeast infection as yeast can be washed off the skin quite easily. In fact, they may never get one from contact with you. It has been proven yeast can be transmitted from one person to another, but the infection may or may not happen depending on the type of transmission, frequency of transmission and how healthy the other person is.
So let’s look at the type of transmission first. If you have yeast in your mouth, better known as that white stuff on your tongue called thrush, you can transfer that to another person by kissing or sharing food. The yeast will then travel into their digestive tract where it can colonize and cause problems. Let’s look at a second case: you have a vaginal yeast infection. This can also be transmitted on contact, and depending where the contact is made during that time, the yeast can travel to a variety of places onto and into the other person. The yeast will love any part that is wet or moist, and it will make its home there as quickly as it possibly can.
Now let’s look at frequency of transmission. The above examples of types of transmission don’t necessarily guarantee a transferred yeast infection. Frequency plays a fair part in whether it is transferred or not. If there is repeated sharing of yeast, the chances greatly increase that the yeast will be transferred and take root in the new host and start up the agony of a yeast infection. But there is one more thing to consider.
And here is the tricky part. If the other person’s immune system isn’t optimal (and most peoples aren’t), or they have taken antibiotics recently or are currently taking them, or they eat a diet high in white flour/yeast containing foods, they could get a yeast infection from repeated contact. The most common transmission of yeast infections from person to person happens to people in a relationship who have varying types of contact on a fairly frequent basis. Yes, it’s good to share things when you are in a relationship, but this is not one of them! The best way to “stop the madness” of sharing a yeast infection back and forth is to cease and desist contact with any infected area until the infection is completely gone. And step two is to stop the infection from where it started so it doesn’t come back and you can enjoy each other’s company once more.
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