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Do diabetics experience more vaginal infections that non-diabetics?
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Sometimes: A diabetic patient, whose sugars are under good control, is no more susceptible to vaginal infections than anyone else. If sugars are high, however, vaginal yeast infections are much more common. Yeast organisms love sugar.......
Answered 10/10/2017
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