The weather can affect yeast growth, as can tight clothing or clothing that promotes heat. Women with HIV, for example, often suffer from severe and recurring yeast infections. Diabetes, which can also make women prone to yeast infections. The discharge is white, not yellow or green, and has an almost sweet odor, if it smells at all. The itching and burning of a yeast infection, usually in the vulva or in the outer area of the vagina, can be severe.
Yeast infection can produce redness or red bumps around the vulva.
Vaginal yeast infections often go away on their own and there's no health risk to going without treatment. The itching is hard to live with, though. Unless you're sure you have a yeast infection, it's best to see a health care provider because these medicines disrupt the vagina's balance of yeast and bacteria. Don't use vaginal creams or have intercourse at least 24 hours before your health care appointment, suggests the Spence Center's Guerriero. Otherwise, when I take a specimen of the discharge, I can't see anything.