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Can diet affect your thrush

Thrush: Can your diet make a difference? It may not be a pleasant thought but your body, inside and out, is literally teeming with billions of microorganisms – some good, some not so good. Some are bacteria and some are fungi. While they are in balance, there’s no issue, but when they get out of balance they can cause irritating conditions like thrush. Thrush can occur in a number of places including your mouth and vagina – and when it’s down there it can be very irritating indeed. Candida albicans is the fungus behind thrush. According to the Centers for…

12 things you should never put in your vagina

Many products are advertised to decorate, cleanse, tighten or detox vagina but could they do more harm than good? Vaginas are getting a lot of attention. We’re being told they need to be rejuvenated, cleansed, detoxed and be-jazzled, and there is a multitude of mixtures, recipes and products claiming to do all those things. A quick run through social media turns up ads for vagina sticks, perfumed or herbal suppositories and douches, glittery “passion dust” and even a ground up wasp nest powder are just a few of the things people are putting in that other place where the sun…