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How does one come in contact with this fungus under normal circumstances?
by donohoe 3y ago
How does one come in contact with this fungus under normal circumstances?
- bee_rider 3y agoApparently according to Wikipedia it is a common gut flora.
- m3kw9 3y agoI think they are in everyone’s bodies as part of the flora so if you have too much of it like when there is an imbalance under maybe if you have weakened immune that could be a problem. Treat it as a probability like how often you can get hurt driving a car, and don’t worry about it
- retrac 3y agoEverywhere, all the time. It is ubiquitous and one of the normal human symbiotes. You probably have some on your skin and in your mouth right now. It can cause candidiasis - thrush - usually of the mouth or genitals. This is rare except in the badly immunocompromised.
- Scoundreller 3y agoMany women would disagree with the very last point. Common enough they let you buy the antimicrobial treatments off the shelf.
- CuriousCosmic 3y agoCandida are all yeasts. Candida albicans is just a type of yeast that grows in the human gut and is one of the common causes of thrush (i.e. a yeast infection). So it's uh pretty much everywhere.
- amalcon 3y agoC. albicans represents a large fraction of infections contracted in hospitals (IIRC second only to various staph infections). You come into contact with it all the time, without too much risk -- until your immune system is weakened, or it gets into somewhere that your immune system doesn't really contest that strongly.