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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff Mom never told you?

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Speaker 1: From house Stuff Works dot Com? Held on and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Kristen and I'm Molly Molly. Today

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Speaker 1: we've got an it's we need to scratch for quite

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Speaker 1: a long time, and it's called yeast infections. It's nice.

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Speaker 1: it's something that has been on our women's health to

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Speaker 1: do list for a while, not to get to do

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Speaker 1: to talk about that is yeast in infections. But we've

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Speaker 1: probably avoided it up until now, I don't know, maybe

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Speaker 1: like two fifty episodes because who wants to talk about

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Speaker 1: yeast infections? And maybe more importantly to our listeners, who

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Speaker 1: wants to listen to talk about people talk about ust infections.

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Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is as many as

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Speaker 1: three out of four women will have a UST infection

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Speaker 1: in their lifetime, so we got to talk about it,

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Speaker 1: and men later piano ust infections they can happen. So

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Speaker 1: because it's so common. We've we've got to discuss that,

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Speaker 1: even though it's you know, no one's idea of a picnic,

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Speaker 1: but it's important. Yeah, and there's some useful information out

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Speaker 1: there that I think women especially will appreciate. But before

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Speaker 1: we get to a fascinating findings, let's go over a

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Speaker 1: little bit of yeast infection one oh one, my favorite

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Speaker 1: class in college. Yes, uh. Ust infections are a type

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Speaker 1: of vaginitis or an inflammation of the vagina, which is

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Speaker 1: characterized by a vaginal irritation, intense itchiness, and vaginal discharge.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of times this discharge should be odorless, Yes,

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Speaker 1: and tuck away in your mind because this will come up.

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Speaker 1: That odorless factor will come up later. Yes, because some

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Speaker 1: discharge is normal. Your your vagina is teeming with bacteria

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Speaker 1: and yeast and most of the time these are in

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Speaker 1: perfect harmony. And as the vagina cleans itself, you will

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Speaker 1: and you get a yeast infection when that balance is

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Speaker 1: which is also found on the skin and that gestive track.

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Speaker 1: So there's nothing wrong with the fact that you're producing it.

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Speaker 1: You're just producing too much and there are certain things

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Speaker 1: prescribed antibiotics you're a woman, your doctor might recommend you

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Speaker 1: going to tell out all the back tearing your system

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Speaker 1: full of that good stuff that is keeping the yeast imbalance.

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Speaker 1: When you are pregnant, especially in the second trimester, you

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Speaker 1: what are used loves, so that could cause and used

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Speaker 1: disrupt the lovely balance microbial balance down there, including douching. Yes,

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Speaker 1: So you've got a yeast infection. Are you think you've

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Speaker 1: that description. But here's the thing. You got some of

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Speaker 1: Yes may I quote Susan Hofstadter, a researcher at St.

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Speaker 1: yeast infection end quote wise words, wise words. Just because

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Speaker 1: But the good news is a lot of times those

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Speaker 1: And we should mention we don't receive any money from monstat.

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