Yeast infection in men!
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Yes, men can get yeast infections too, in medical terminology this condition is known as “Balanitis” (inflammation of the head of the penis/glans penis).
Yeast infections in men are common because the fungus that causes yeast infections ( Candida balanitis) is normally present on skin, especially moist skin (warm and moist environment).
Our skin has many forms of yeast that live on it, including Candida. In healthy people, this ordinarily doesn’t cause any problems. But when there’s an overgrowth of Candida, it can dig below the surface of our skin and can cause a rash or skin infection.
When some contributing factor — such as having sex with a partner who has a vaginal yeast infection — causes an overgrowth of candida, infection can result and causes a red, itchy rash on the head of the penis.
Children under age 4 and uncircumcised people have the highest risk of being diagnosed with the condition. Candida balanitis is more likely to occur if you have a condition called phimosis. Phimosis means you can’t pull back (retract) your foreskin over your penis. Once children reach age 5, their foreskin usually becomes easier to retract and their risk level falls.
symptoms of Yeast infection in men?
Symptoms of a male yeast infection include pain, swelling and redness in your groin area. The redness is usually in patches. Other symptoms may include:
- Redness, soreness, or swelling of the penis
- White, shiny patches at the top of the penis
- Small red spots at the top of the penis
- Cracked foreskin
- Thick, white discharge under the foreskin or other folds of skin
- Difficulty pulling back the foreskin
- Itchiness
- Burning sensation during urination
- Pain or discomfort during sex
After having a yeast infection, you may notice your skin peeling. The infection makes your skin more vulnerable. This can make it flaky or crusty and eventually it may start peeling. Redness, itchiness, and pain in the penis can be signs of other more serious conditions, like some sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
Conditions and risk factors that allow Candida to grow include:
- Poor hygiene.
- Using harsh soaps.
- Not rinsing soap off your foreskin completely.
- Not drying off thoroughly.
- Irritated or damaged skin.
- Sex partners with vaginal yeast infections.
- Have a condition that weakens immune system, such as diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS etc.
- Have overweight or obesity.
- Taking antibiotics (Antibiotics kill all good and bad bacteria that normally live in and on our body).
- Have a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Complications of Yeast infection in men
An untreated yeast infection can cause many complications which may include:
- Scarring and narrowing of your penis.
- Pain and difficulty pulling back your foreskin or moving your foreskin over the head of your penis.
- Issues with blood supply to the tip of your penis.
- Increased risk of penile cancer.
Treatment
Allopathic treatment for male yeast infections may include an antifungal drugs like antifungal cream, lotion or ointment and steroid both orally and externally (to apply on derma). Creams for fungal infections are popular as topical ointments to ease symptoms like itching, but their effectiveness in treating the problem is not proven, they just ease the problem and pull the candida inside the dermis/skin which can create even more problems/diseases.
Homeopathic Treatment for Yeast infection in men
Tellurium
Tellurium is a medicine for fungal infections of the skin. Herpes on scrotum and perineum, multiple ring-shaped lesions that form intersecting rings that are crowded over each other, ringworm, Stinging in skin. Mild scaling and vesicles over the rings may appear, along with a heated sensation on the skin, Small red pimples, very bright red and very sharply defined, with minute vesicles upon them caused very severe itching day and night, circular vesicular spots; thickly covered with elevated rings of herpes circinate. Psoriasis. Skin dry, hot. Scrofulous eczematous eruption.
Graphites Naturalis
Fungal infections like ringworm in the groin area, which is also known as tinea cruris or jock’s itch. Tension and cramp-like pains in the genital parts, with troublesome voluptuous ideas. Eruption of pimples on the prepuce, and on the penis. Dropsical swelling of the prepuce and the scrotum rawness, redness in the groin area, along with blisters. Oozing of watery, sticky discharge may be noticed from the blisters, cracks on skin. There is intense itching in the affected area which gets aggravated at night.
Obstinate skin dryness, Vesicular erysipelas, Eruptions oozing out a thick fluid. Titters, and other humid or scaly eruptions.
Borax
Skin difficult to heal; dingy, unhealthy-looking skin; every injury tends to ulceration. Erysipelatous inflammations, with swelling and tension of the part affected, and fever, tenderness in the lesions, soreness and redness, Whitish pimples, with red areola. Herpetic eruptions. Purulent and phagedenic vesicles.
Pulsatilla
Itching and tickling in prepuce and scrotum. Thick white, milky or cream-like, acrid discharge, itching and burning on the inner and upper side of the prepuce, Dropsical swelling of scrotum of a whitish blue color, Flow of prostatic fluid.-Inflammation of prostate gland.
Merc Sole/Mercurius
Boys often pull and tear at the prepuce all the time, which may cause great emaciation, and result in death; adults often have this pulling, a kind of itching being the cause, collection of smegma behind glans. A red rash on buttock area which is tender to touch appears, and vesicles with a discharge of thin fluid may be seen. An itchy rash that gets worse at night can make the baby irritable.
Voluptuous itching, tingling, tearing, and shooting in glans and prepuce. Puffing, or inflammatory swelling of prepuce, sometimes with burning pain, fissures, rhagades, and eruptions. Burning in urethra during coitus. Purulent secretion between prepuce and glans, sometimes with swelling, heat, and redness of front part of penis. Swelling of the lymphatic vessels along the penis. Vesicles and phagedenic ulcers (chancres) with lard-like, or cheesy, bases, and raised margin, on glans and prepuce. Profuse perspiration of genital parts.
Mezereum
Diminished secretion of urine. In morning and forenoon, frequent discharges of large quantities of pale urine, Discharge of mucus from urethra. It is useful for both scaly eruptions on the scalp or crusty scabby eruptions with pus-like discharge, Biting burning in forepart of urethra at close of micturition.-After micturition, itching at prepuce. Tearing and burning lancinations in the end of the glans. Heat and swelling of penis, Abundant secretion of smegma behind glans, like gonorrhoea balani
Ulcers with thick, whitish, yellow scabs, under which thick, yellow pus collects.-Skin covered with elevated white scabs. Itching, especially at night, Miliary eruptions, sometimes chronic. Furunculi. Inflamed ulcers, with burning and shooting, or with gnawing pain of excoriation. Inflammation and swelling, Vesicles around the ulcers, itching violently and burning.
Antimonium Crudum
Itching eruptions, Miliary eruptions and nettle-rash. Discolored tumors and blisters. Eruptions are similar to chicken-pox, with shooting pain on pressure, thick, hard scabs, often honey-yellow, here and there a crack oozing a green sinuous fluid, burning as if immersed in hot embers. Pustules with yellowish or brown scurf. Freckles. Hepatic spots. Deep spongy ulcers with gastric ulcers. Fistulous ulcers. Horn like excrescences and disposition to abnormal organizations of the skin, Degeneration of the skin.
Silicea
Itching, and red spots on glans.-Excoriation, itching, and redness of prepuce. Swelling of prepuce, which is covered with itching and moist pimples. Dropsical swelling of scrotum. Perspiration and itching in scrotum. Itching, and moist spots on scrotum, peeling of skin, itching, pain, Perspiration from slight exercise, sweating with offensive smell, blisters.
Sepia Succus
chapping of the skin, or cracks may extend deeply into the tissues disposed to crack. Ulceration of the exanthema; bed sores; brown sphacelus. Tetters in general. Ulcers suppurating; pus too copious; swollen; with proud flesh circular, ring-shaped lesions on the skin in isolated spots. The lesions may be itchy and burn when scratched, increased perspiration. Ringworm infection, Excessive sensitive skin. Dry and itching eruptions, Eruptions of vesicles, like pemphigus.-Itching, stinging, lancinating, burning, or sometimes indolent ulcers.
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