Do Bakers' Wives Get More Yeast Infections?

[Surreal]

Can casual contact with the kinds of yeast used in baking or homebrewing cause a woman to develop a yeast infection? What about exposure to dough that has already been cooked??

Are the species of yeast associated with yeast infections identical to those used in baking?

Thanks.

[lonesome_loser]

@Surreal

Can casual contact with the kinds of yeast used in baking or homebrewing cause a woman to develop a yeast infection? What about exposure to dough that has already been cooked??

Are the species of yeast associated with yeast infections identical to those used in baking?

Thanks.

No.

[dtilque]

Just to elaborate on lonesome loser’s laconic answer, see this Mailbag article: Is yeast infection yeast the same as cooking yeast?

To summarize, baker’s and brewer’s yeast is a completely different beastie, not even in the same family as yeast infection-type yeast.