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Any ideas if i can have sex after a yeast infection?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Yeast Infections: Hold off on having vaginal intercourse until your course of treatment is complete and you no longer have redness, itching or burning of vulva.

Answered 6/19/2014

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