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Yeast Infections And Baths – Are Your Relaxing Baths Causing Problems?

Yeast infections are very common. They can be transmitted in many ways. You could be susceptible to yeast infections just from taking a relaxing bubble bath.

Bubble baths and bath salts and yeast infections are being linked together.  Doctors are now making the correlation between young children and women who take frequent bubble baths and use bath salts and how often they visit the doctor’s office with yeast infections.

It is not only the use of these bath products, but the prolonged sitting in a hot bath that can cause the yeast infection to flare into action.

Children love to take bubble baths and play in the bubbles, but the fact is that they are usually sitting in the water which they have cleaned their selves.  This allows the dirt and soap to seep into the vaginal area, killing healthy bacteria produced naturally to fight off infection.

Sitting in bubble baths and bath salts allow for yeast to spread both inside and outside the vaginal area. 

Other issues and concerns for children are that they are quick to finish their baths and not always dry themselves off completely.  Children then put on pajamas over the moist genital area leaving an already moist area open to the growth of yeast. Though this happen to girls more than boys, boys can also have yeast irritation and infections.

The symptoms in girls are often more noticeable. Both sexes can develop redness, and itching, where a girl may likely develop blisters and discharge, boys can have itching and most generally will develop a rash in and around the penis.

For women, how many times have we women come home from work and decide a nice bubble bath is just what we need to relax?

We run a tub full of hot water add bubble bath and bath salts, light a couple candles maybe make ourselves a drink and sink into the warmth of relaxation. The longer we are resting in the hot water, the longer we are opening ourselves to bacteria which could open ourselves to a yeast infection.

Another important factor is keeping the vaginal area dry, some woman find that wearing cotton underwear during the day and letting the area dry at night by wearing a nightgown with no underclothes allows the vaginal area to dry without being constricted by tight underwear.

If you simply do not want to give up the baths, you should take a warm to cool shower after your bath to clean off residue and make sure you are dried off properly without excessive rubbing.

It should be said that good sense and personal hygiene are both necessary in the prevention of yeast infections from spreading and making our life uncomfortable as well as embarrassing.

Tags: bath salts, bubble baths, hot water, infection in children, prevention, transmission, treatment, yeast infections

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