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[[File:ThrushMouth.png|right|300px|thumb|A picture of a [[thrush]] infection in the [[mouth]].]]
===Meaning===
[[Thrush]] is a an [[Sexually Transmitted Infection|sexually transmitted infection]] caused by a [[Pathogenic Fungus|pathogenic fungus]] called [[Candida albicans|Candida ''albicans'']]
===About Thrush===
: [[Thrush]] spreads in warm, moist areas like the [[mouth]], [[vagina]] and under the [[foreskin]].
: [[Thrush]] causes itching and soreness and can produce a white coloured [[mucus]]discharge.: [[Thrush]] is not always caught through sexual activity. Safe numbers of the [[thrush]] [[micro-organism]] are found in our [[faeces]] and on our [[skin]] so it can be transmitted to moist areas of the body through poor [[hygiene]] or through washing too harshly, damaging the body's defences against a '''thrush''' [[infection]].