Candida, thrush, candidiasis, and vaginitis. A yeast infection by any other name is still a yeast infection.

And unfortunately for quite a lot of women, at 75%, they will get a yeast infection at least once in their lifetimes.

Of course it's also true that most women will suffer from it more than once in their lifetimes. It's also a true that a percentage of men will get yeast infection as well.

If you've never heard of this before then you're probably wondering what on earth I'm talking about, but I have to assure you that it's perfectly true.

Men can and do get yeast infections, although the occurrence for this isn't as high as it is in women. For the most part male yeast infections will occur when their partner is suffering from a vaginal yeast infection and passes it on during sexual intercourse.

It's also true that yeast infections aren't something that reared its head recently, like some of the other medical problems going around, nor was it diagnosed recently either.

The truth of the matter is that yeast infections have been around since time immemorial, or at least from the time that the first woman made her appearance on this earth.

It's not likely to have started with a man since they don't have the proper conditions for contracting a yeast infection in the first place.

And although like I said, men can get yeast infections, the causes for it don't begin with them. In this case they're just the unlucky recipient.

Of course, quite a few of women today would find much irony in this (and in some cases even a cause for celebration).

There's also the fact that yeast infections don't only occur in the vagina.

In fact yeast infections can occur in a number of different places like the mouth, the underarms, between the toes, and any other place on your body that might serve as a good breeding ground for the bacteria that forms the yeast.

The most common area that a yeast infection will occur though, is in the vagina.

That's why, if you go looking around for information you'll find more information on yeast infections of the vagina, than on yeast infections that occur elsewhere.

In fact, at first glance there's almost little to no information on these other yeast infections. Vaginal yeast infections have seemed to have taken over the whole area of yeast infections!

That said I have to confess that on my part too, I'm writing about vaginal yeast infections. I also touch upon the subject of male yeast infections, and in shorter detail on the subject of yeast infections in general.