Candidiasis - group of the diseases caused by yeast-like mushrooms of sort Candida. Mushrooms of sort Candida find out on fruit, vegetables, in lactic products, sewage of baths, etc., they also are frequent inhabitants (saprophytes) of mucosas of an oral cavity, a digestive tube, respiratory ways, vaginas, skins of healthy people. Exogenous transfer of mushrooms occurs contact, probably, and air-dropwise by, at the use in nutrition of the products containing yeast-like mushrooms. Occurrence of a candidiasis is promoted by disturbances of protective forces of an organism (serious debilitating diseases, tumours, a diabetes mellitis, avitaminoses, etc.), And also long uncontrolled application of antibiotics of a wide spectrum of the action, mucosas overwhelming a normal microflora and skins, antagonists of mushrooms of sort Candida. Distinguish a candidiasis of the skin, the isolated candidiasis of internal organs, an alimentary system, lungs, genitourinary system, a vagina, a candidosis sepsis.

The candidiasis of an alimentary system is shown by a lesion of a mucosa of a mouth, pharynx more often; it is characterized by occurrence of fine red maculae, after punctual white scurfs on a mucosa of tongue, cheeks, larynx which can merge, forming precisely outlined centers covered by milky-white Membranulas after which excision surfaces with erosions are found out. Thus patients mark a burning sensation in a mouth, morbidity mucous, difficulty (because of a pain) mastications and swallowings. The lesion of an esophagus is more often localized in its average third, characterized by an edema and a hyperemia of its mucosa, the ulcerations covered by albesent Membranula, a morbid dysphagia. The candidiasis of a stomach and an intestine meets seldom and proceeds in the form of a catar a Candidias or erosive gastritis, an enteritis, a coloenteritis. Serious forms ulcerative of a gastrointestinal tract can become complicated gastrointestinal bleedings, perforation and development of a peritonitis.