Penile candidiasis is treated with saline washes or application of antifungal cream. Female partners should be examined in case they are the source of the infection. If a man has a persistent infection, he should be investigated for diabetes as diabetes sufferers are prone to penile candidiasis. In addition men who have a penile catheter inserted for a long time are prone to recurrent penile candidiasis. Newborn bottle fed infants and individuals taking antibiotics are most susceptible to oral thrush which is caused by Candida yeasts.
Oral thrush appears as curdy, white patches or membranes covering the inside of the mouth.
Sloughing of the membrane exposes a reddened, irritated surface. Most people can fight off Candida infections with the use of antifungal treatment, but in a small number of people these infections recur and are difficult to cure. CMC is a disease in which individuals have frequent, usually continuous oral thrush which is difficult to treat. When CMC is found in children it is usually genetic, although the exact genetic defect has not been identified it is thought that affected children have two copies of a defective gene, one from each parent. Occasionally there are other reasons for recurrent thrush and blood tests are needed to eliminate these.