Vaginitis

Vaginitis is commonly but incorrectly thought of as just yeast infections. Yeast infection or Candidiasis is a fungal infection of the vaginal area by any of a number of species of fungi. In the case of Vaginitis it is a yeast in the Candida family. The most common of these species is Candida albicans, but other more virulent Candida species are usually also involved. The yeast infection and Vaginitis confusion is that Candidiasis is merely one of three conditions that give rise to vaginal infections. The largest number of infections are caused by bacteria and not yeast. This condition is called Bacterial Vaginosis. The third Vaginitis condition is a protozoal vaginal infection caused by the protozoan Trichomonas. A protozoan is a minute single cell amoebic organism. Bacterial Vaginosis and Trichomonas are the cause of more Vaginitis cases per year than the yeast infection Candidiasis.