# Do Bakers' Wives Get More Yeast Infections?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-bakers-wives-get-more-yeast-infections/334308>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 6, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-bakers-wives-get-more-yeast-infections/334308 "2005-12-06T05:11:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-bakers-wives-get-more-yeast-infections/334308/1 "2005-12-06T05:11:51Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![lonesome\_loser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@lonesome\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lonesome_loser)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-bakers-wives-get-more-yeast-infections/334308/2 "2005-12-06T05:16:20Z")

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> [@Surreal](#):
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> 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??
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> Are the species of yeast associated with yeast infections identical to those used in baking?
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> Thanks.

No.

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-bakers-wives-get-more-yeast-infections/334308/3 "2005-12-06T07:12:02Z")

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Just to elaborate on **lonesome loser** ’s laconic answer, see this Mailbag article: [Is yeast infection yeast the same as cooking yeast?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/myeast.html)

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