Candidiasis is a fungal infection caused by the yeast Candida albicans. Treatment of candidiasis can be either external or antifungal medications. A specialist will help determine the cause and offer appropriate treatment.
Candida is a fungus that lives almost everywhere, including the human body. Usually, your immune system keeps it under control. If you have an immune system deficiency or you’re taking antibiotics, it may multiply and cause a local or even systemic infection called candidiasis.
Candidiasis may occur anywhere in the human body. There are different forms of yeast infection, depending upon the area affected. Most commonly, the mouth, vagina and skin areas are affected, as yeast grows there naturally. For example: 1) thrush is a yeast infection that causes white patches in the mouth, 2) candida esophagitis is thrush that spreads to your esophagus which makes swallowing hard and painful, 3) women may get vaginitis, which is a vaginal yeast infection, causing itchiness, pain and smelly discharge, 4) yeast infection of the skin cause itching and rashes and 5) yeast infections in your bloodstream may be life-threatening. These only occur if your immune system is deficient like in HIV/AIDS. However local infections often occur after an antibiotics treatment.
Candidiasis infection levels may be lowered by daily personal hygiene and careful intake of antibiotics. The body is naturally populated by Candida without having any symptoms. Once a Candida infection occurs treatment is normally external medication depending on the location of infected areas. A systemic infection only occurs in severely sick patients with a deficient immune system. Treatment should be carried out in hospital by a specialist.
Several years of work in academia, medical practice and finally commercialization make it possible to provide an end-to-end process to help users to “find the appropriate medical help based on their present symptoms”. Below you will find a short explanation, showing you which part of the platform will help you best in finding the appropriate medical support.
Proceed as follows to enter your current symptoms.
Click on the appropriate body part on the picture. Select one/multiple symptoms corresponding to your complaint.
You can also add symptoms by typing your medical complaint in the search box and selecting the best matching suggestion.
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Once you have selected all applicable symptoms, click the “analyze disease pattern”-button.
Accordingly, you will get a list of possible diseases and matching doctor categories who can further help you.
You can inform yourself about the possible diseases by reading the related information. But you can also return to the previous step and add more symptoms or delete already added ones to further narrow down your disease pattern.
Click on the desired doctor category to find a doctor who can help you.
If you are logged in with your profile, you will be displayed the appropriate doctors in your area. Otherwise you can enter an address in the “address” field and you will be displayed a doctor’s list around that specified address.
You will receive further information about the displayed doctors when you press on “details”.
Online bookable doctors in your area will be indicated with the notation “Book appointment” or “Book externally”, additionally they will be displayed on top of the list for your convenience.
Click on “Book appointment” to start the online appointment booking process with the desired doctor.
Please select an available appointment. “Green“ appointments are booked directly. “Red“ appointments need to be confirmed by the doctor.
Enter your general personal and health information.
Enter your present medical symptoms.
Enter your mobile phone number to identify yourself and you can finalize the appointment booking.
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