Yeast infection, boyfriend and clothes?

[shiningbanana.livejournal.com]

Yesterday, a few hours after we had sex, my boyfriend noticed itching on his penis, although he's fine today.  This evening, I noticed itching that I'm guessing is a yeast infection (I've only had one before, about a month ago, and I never have the characteristic cottage cheese discharge etc, just itching and rawness). 
1. Is it likely that he has it as well, and should I make him use Monostat or whatever to treat it also? 
2. Should I wash the sheets/pair of pants I was wearing without underwear/etc, worrying that they could possibly give the infection back to me or to my boyfriend, or is this not a problem?
3. I've seen the images for oral thrush and they're not pretty.  If I went down on him for a few minutes today, is it likely that I'm going to get that?  I think I read somewhere that it's unlikely to get oral thrush from a yeast infection, but not sure. 

Thanks so much!

Comments

[archangelbeth]

1: Yes.
2: The pants should definitely be washed, and ideally dried inside out in the sun. The sheets could probably use it as well, but not as urgently.
3: It probably depends on your susceptibility to yeast. Without a lot of sugars in your mouth all the time (like babies have), it's probably less likely. Eating yogurt and acidic things, and avoiding alcohol (full of sugars!) and sugar candy would probably help with such things, but if you don't have it right now you probably aren't going to develop it. --still, if he hasn't been treated, I wouldn't go down on him. Handjob time!

Must run. Good luck!

[atalanta0jess.livejournal.com]

It's hard to say how much is really necessary. Some people think you should iron the crotches of your underwear to kill all the yeast.

I tend to think though, that all of that is unnecessary. What you need to do is reacidify your vagina. It should do that on it's own, but you can help it out with some vinegar or boric acid (like vulvapedia describes for home treatment of yeasties). If your vag and mouth are healthy, they can be exposed to yeast without getting an infection. In fact, we are exposed to yeast all the time. It's in our environment, and so my theory is always that it makes more sense to fix the problems that make you susceptible to yeast than to try to avoid the yeast all together.

[atalanta0jess.livejournal.com]

Oh, and just washing your clothes should be fine - soap messes up cell membranes, and should do a decent job of killing the yeast.

[shiningbanana.livejournal.com]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate all the input!