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Viewing medical yeast infection pictures may help you identify or verify whether you (or your loved one) is suffering from a candida infection. For ease of navigation, these pictures are broken into various categories --

man yeast infection (infection male picture yeast)

female yeast infection (female infection picture yeast)

baby yeast infection (infection photo yeast)

other yeast infections (infection picture skin yeast)

Each yeast infection picture * is accompanied by the medical diagnosis, description, comment, age of patient, and site of the candida infection. Click on the image to view the larger infection photo yeast. Please be aware that the larger yeast infection pictures may take longer to load, so please be patient.

BE FOREWARNED !!! These medical yeast infection pictures are very graphic. Do not continue if you are squeemish or UNDER 18!!!

What does candida albicans look like?

This microscopic film shows a fluorescent stain of Candida. Candida is a yeast (fungus) that causes mild disease, but in immunocompromised individuals it may cause life-threatening illness. (Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control.)

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Male yeast infection pictures (infection male picture yeast)

Diagnosis: Candidiasis
Body site: genital / penis
Gender: male
Age: 28 years
Description: erythematous red crusted patch
Comments: This young man developed a red scaly crusted patch on the dorsal shaft of the penis. A potassium hydroxide preparation from the coronal sulcus revealed budding yeast. The rash cleared with a topical antifungal cream.

Contributor: Kosman Sadek Zikry, MD

Diagnosis: Candidiasis
Body site: genital / penis
Gender: male
Age: 32 years
Description: erythema, maceration and white scale in the skin crease
Comments: This 32 year old man developed painful itchy red patches with scale and maceration on the dorsal shaft of the penis. The rash cleared with topical antifungal cream.

Contributor: Kosman Sadek Zikry, MD

Female yeast infection pictures (female infection picture yeast)

female infection picture yeast, yeast infection picture

Diagnosis: Candidiasis
Body site: perianal / perineum diaper area
Gender: female
Age: 8 years
Description: well defined red macerated patch with scalloped scaly border and multiple flaccid vesicopustular lesions
Comments: This 8 year old girld developed a well defined, inflammed, macerated, pruritic patch involving her perianal skin. The eruptoin spreaded to the perineum and upper inner thighs. A collar of overhanging scales and multiple satellite flaccid vesiculopustual lesions were also noted.

Contributor: Shahbaz Janjua, FCPS, MRSH, MD

Baby yeast infection pictures (infection photo yeast)

Diagnosis: Pyramidal Protrusion / Candidiasis / Dermatitis, diaper
Body site: perianal / diaper area, perineum / anus, genital
Gender: female
Age: 9 months
Description: smooth pyramid shaped pink nodule; 2 mm red crusted papules
Comments: A healthy 9 month old girl developed a smooth topped pyramid shaped nodule on the perineum after an episode of diarrhea. The lesoin resolved several months later without treatment. The red crusted papules in the anogenital area cleared after a week of topical antifungal therapy. Pyramidal protrusion of infancy should not be confused with anogenital warts or othe sexually transmitted diseases.

Contributor: Eric Ehrsam, MD

Diagnosis: Candidiasis
Body site: perineum
Gender: female
Age: 5 months
Description: symmetric red perineal papules worsened after a week of topical barrier paste. Potassium hydroxide microscopic prep revealed hyphae. Rash cleared with Nystatin cream.
Comments: This diaper dermatitis worsened over a week until treatment with topical mycostatin cream was started. A potassium hydroxide preparation revealed hyphae. The eruption cleared in 3 days.

Contributor: Douglas Hoffman, MD

Diagnosis: Candidiasis, Dermatitis, contact irritant
Body site: diaper area / groin, penis / scrotum, thigh / suprapubic area
Gender: male
Age: 3 months
Description: confluent beefy red papules with discrete papules, pustules and desquamation at the border
Comments: A 3 month old boy developed an irritant contact dermatitis and secondary candidiasis while on a course of oral antibiotics for otitis media. The diaper dermatitis improved with the application of a topical antifungal cream.

Contributor: Kosman Sadek Zikry, MD

Diagnosis: Dermatitis, diaper / Candidiasis / Dermatitis, contact irritant
Body site: diaper area / genital, penis / scrotum, groin
Gender: male
Age: 4 months
Description: erythema, edema, scaling, and crusting
Comments: This infant developed an irritant contact dermatitis and candidiasis while on oral amoxacillin for otitis media. The rash cleared with topical antifungal cream and barrier paste.

Contributor: Kosman Sadek Zikry, MD

Diagnosis: Dermatitis, diaper / Candidiasis / Dermatitis, Contact irritant
Body site: diaper area / genital, penis / scrotum, groin
Gender: male
Age: 32 years
Description: erythema, edema, scaling, and crusting
Comments: This infant developed an irritant contact dermatitis and candidiasis while on oral amoxacillin for otitis media. The rash cleared with topical antifungal cream and barrier paste.

Contributor: Kosman Sadek Zikry, MD

Other yeast infections pictures (infection picture skin yeast)

Diagnosis: Candidiasis / Thrush
Body site: tongue / tongue, dorsal surface
Gender: male
Age: 15 years
Description: confluent white patches and midline furrow
Comments: This adolescent boy with psoriatic arthritis developed thrush while on high dose oral corticosteroids.

Contributor: Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis: Thrush / Candidiasis
Body site: tongue
Gender: male
Age: 12 years
Description: scaly thick white plagues
Comments: This 12-year-old boy developed oral thrush while on chronic oral steroid therapy. The tongue lesions cleared with oral fluconazole.

Contributor: Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis: Thrush / Candidiasis
Body site: lip / tongue, mouth
Gender: male
Age: 5 years
Description: edematous crusted fissured lips, eroded white plaque on tongue
Comments: After a 10 day course of antibiotics for tonsilitis, this 5 year old boy developed oral thrush associated with red cracked fissured lips and crusted erosions at the corner of the mouth and on the chin. Cutaneous and oral lesions cleared quickly when he was treated with oral fluconazole.

Contributor: Kosman Sadek Zikry, MD

Diagnosis: Paronychia, Chronic / Candidiasis / Nail dystrophy
Body site: nail, hand
Gender: female
Age: 40 years
Description: erythema and edema of the nail fold, loss of the cuticle with nail dystrophy and greenish discoloration of the nail plate around the lateral nail fold
Comments: This 40-year-old woman with a history of reapeatedly submerging her hands in water developed tender erythema and swelling of the proximal nail fold of her right thumb. The loss of cuticle associated with greenish discoloration of the nail plate around the lateral nail folds is typical of infection from Candida which was cultured from the discharge.

Contributor: Shahbaz Janjua, FCPS, MRSH, MD

Diagnosis: Nail dystrophy / Paronychia, Chronic / Candidiasis
Body site: finger / nail, hand
Gender: female
Age: 2 years
Description: friable yellow dystrophic nail
Comments: This toddler was fond of sucking on this finger. She developed a chronic paronychia. Culture of scale from the nail grew Candida albicans.

Contributor: Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis: Paronychia, Chronic / Candidiasis
Body site: finger / hand
Gender: male
Age: 4 years
Description: red, edematous, scaly lateral and proximal nail folds on three fingers with nail distrophy
Comments: A 4 year old finger sucker developed chronic occasionally painful swelling of three fingers associated with nail distrophy. Candida albicans was cultured from the proximal nail fold. He eventually stopped sucking on the fingers and the paronychia resolved eventually.

Contributor: Bernard Cohen, MD

infection picture skin yeast, candida infection

Diagnosis: Candidiasis
Body site: back
Gender: male
Age: 5 years
Description: diffused papules, pustules, and red scaly plaques
Comments: A debilitated 5 year old boy developed a disseminated red papulopustular scaly eruption most prominent on his back. The patches were pruritic and painful. A KOH preparation demonstrated pseudohyphae. The lesions cleared quickly with two doses of oral fluconazole.

Contributor: Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis: Embolus, Septic / Candidiasis
Body site: back / neck
Gender: female
Age: 14 months
Description: disseminated 3-5 mm red nonblanching papules
Comments: Ten days after receiving high dose chemotherapy, a 14 month girl developed high fevers and purpuric papules on her trunk and extremities. A skin biopsy demonstrated yeast in dermal blood vessels, and multiple blood cultures as well as a piece of the skin biopsy grew Candida.

Contributor: Bernard Cohen, MD

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