Can You Have Sex With a Yeast Infection?

Her advice is to allow healing and restoration to occur without any friction or trauma to thevaginal tissues.

In other words, its best to avoid making the situation down there any worse.

What are some early vaginal yeast infection symptoms?

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If you’ve ever had a yeast infection, you may wonder “can I have sex with a yeast infection?”

Sometimes, this fungus grows out of control in places like your vagina, throat, and mouth.

When this balance is working, all is good!

But when the balance is disrupted, an overgrowth can occur.

Think of it as an ever-tipping balance of good and evil, but for your privates.

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Otherwise that pesky yeast can claw its way back into microbe domination.

Those tiny tears can cause your poor vagina to feel even more inflamed.

(More on this below.)

Lets get right to the burning question: Is a yeast infection contagious?

Again, this is possible, but not likely.

Thats because we all have candida present in our mouth, but it only becomes thrush when it overgrows.

Now lets talk a bit more about penises and vaginas, specifically.

Otherwise, there is a risk youll keep passing it back and forth to each other.

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Also, if your partner is being treated, double-check symptoms have cleared up forbothof you.

When in doubt, ask your doctor.

They can determine if the infection is gone and if its safe to have sex.

They can do a physical exam and run lab tests to check for unique markers of each condition.

Because some STIs and yeast infections can share similar symptoms, differentiating between the two is especially challenging.

You might even notice avaginal odor.

In any case,having sex with a UTI, STI,oryeast infection isnt a good idea.

In that sense, your recurrences are something else entirely and warrant different treatment options.