THRUSH!!!

Thrush is an extremely common infection that is known scientifically as candidiasis (infection with Candida). Candidiasis has a distinct appearance when it is found on mucous membranes (the soft, moist, pink or red skin found inside your cheeks, covering your palate and inside your vagina and anus). If the mucous membrane is infected with Candida it looks speckled, with white clumps standing out on the darker background. Once, long ago, somebody thought this speckled appearance resembled the markings on a thrush's breast and so the common name was coined. A bird it is not — so what is thrush?