Thrush: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatments & Prevention!

It’s more common than you think. Thrush is a vaginal yeast infection caused by excessive growth of natural yeast-like fungus, called candida albicans.

If you’ve noticed vaginal irritation and inflammation or a change in your discharge (cottage cheese-like white discharge), you may have a yeast infection. This occurs when the good bacteria in your vagina cannot keep the fungus under control, or when your immune system is weakened.

Just so you know, vaginal thrush is not a sexually transmitted infection, although it can be passed from one partner to another if they have sex while one of them is suffering from thrush.