Can a gal get, uh, “sore vagina?” I mean, from the sore throat that the guy has…I’ve always wondered about this. I’ve been meaning to ask the doctor the next time I go, but hey, the SDMB is at the ready. What’s the deal?
IANAD or a woman. My guess is she’s likelier to get a sore throat, if you have a viral infection. Um, I’ve gotten the flu from BJs on two occasions, and the symptoms didn’t hang around my penis.
Yeah, but a vagina is a moist mucus membrane, right? Seems like the perfect place to harbor sore throat nasties. But you never hear of this sort of tragedy. Anyone else? 
By the way, were the BJs worth it? 
One was, the other wasn’t. I didn’t have the same level of emotion invested in both women.
Thrush can be transmitted from the mouth to the vagina. It could be at a low, undetected level in the mouth, but thrive in the vagina if it found it to be a more receptive environment.
Yes.
A “sore throat” has multiple types of viruses and bacteria as the underlying etiology. Herpes, gonorrhea, and even the lowly adenovirus http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/33/10/2728 all come to mind as examples of pathogens which can cause local problems in both the oropharynx and the urogenital tract (male or female–could be urethritis in a guy). There are many others.
So knock it off.
Candida is so ubiquitous that it probably shouldn’t be considered an infectious disease. It is an infection and it is a disease, but when it causes disease, it’s usually your own candida overwhelming your host defense versus something you caught somewhere. We all have some candida all the time living on our mucosa–vaginas in particular; it’s normally just not able to gain a foothold to the point where it becomes symptomatic.
If nothing else, I wonder how you’d be able to say AHHHH
Patient: Doctor, “What’s wrong with my big toe?”
Doctor: “You have syphllis of the toe”
Patient: “That’s the strangest thing I’ve ever heard.”
Doctor: “You think that’s strange? I had a woman in here this morning with athlete’s vagina!”
Gonorrhea could be a possibility, Neisseria gonorrhoeae can infect the oralpharnyx and be passed on through oral sex. I can only imagine that the symptoms of an oral infection would be slightly more than just a sore throat.
Gonorrheal conjuctivitis sounds like the stuff of nightmares though.
Oh, yeah? I’ll bet you I don’t have any candida in my vagina!
How about toxic shock? I haven’t read much about it in many years, but I thought it was the result of a staph and strep intensified by tampon use. I remember an article about how all of the early identified cases were in women who, in retrospect, had colds at the time.
Also, nobody’s mentioned it, and perhaps everybody knows it these days, but that “cold sore” is herpes and not very particular about whether it’s living on a mouth or genitals.
Herpes actually IS rather particular about where it likes to bury in and set up house. Herpes 1 prefers the mouth and lips, and it is expressed by the painful lip (or tongue or inside of the mouth, side of the nose, etc.) cold sores or fever blisters that are so common in all ages. Herpes type II is more comfortable in the genital region and that’s where it tends to stay. A person giving a blow job to someone with active genital herpes can certainly have an outbreak on the mouth later. But the outbreak in that secondary site is less likely to stick around and cause later outbreaks. Same’s true of oral herpes being transferred to the genital site. Not as robust in that region.
I thought for a moment that was going to be the setup for one of those ‘you got your chocolate in my peanut butter!’ things.
Once BakingWithElectricity saw the doc for some discomfort and a culture showed she had vaginal strep. Guess who was being treated for strep throat the week before. :rolleyes: :o
If a woman sleeps with her alarm clock in her panties, she could wake up with tick-tocksic shock.
JillGat, cite please? I have always been trained that the Herpes 1 and 2 were not that particular, though they have preferences.
Emphasis mine, Wikipedia citing American Journal of Epidemiology (1983).* If more frecent studies disprove this, I’d be very interested to know.
*ETA: Can’t tell from the abstract if this is an accurate cite.
Did it hurt when she swallowed? No, seriously, what did that feel like, if you don’t mind my asking? I’ve got strep throat right now, and I’m trying to imagine what that specific sort of pain would be like in my vagina.
Not a pleasant thought.
“Doctor, it hurts when I see!”
Waaait… vaginas can swallow?! And just when I thought I had it all figured out. sigh