What causes a thrush infection?
Thrush is nothing more than a yeast infection in your mouth. Yeast organisms live everywhere in your body, but sometime there are too many, and that is an infection. Babies have thrush all the time. Normally, bacteria in your body kills off excess yeast, but in your case the bacteria was losing the battle for some reason. When you took the antibiotics to kill some kind of harmful bacteria, it also killed off some more of the “good’ bacteria in your system. Then the yeast really had a party without their enemy around. It wont do any good to start treating your thrush until you are done taking the antibiotics, because until the “good” bacteria has a chance to build up it’s numbers again, the yeast will just continue to grow out of control. There are many less serious reasons for getting thrush as an adult than the reasons you were tested for, your doctor was just making sure. Your immune system just wasn’t up to par. Stop worrying for now. If you get thrush again, after it has gone away
