if anyone has ever read >anything regarding yeast spores living on a diaphragm...No other >explanation would seem to fit >the experience that resulted, of brief but intense monilia symptoms >immediately following diaphragm use... Wouldn't an allergic reaction to the diaphragm or the spermicide produce roughly the same symptoms? Arly Helm [log in to unmask] MS, Nutrition & Food Science, CLE, IBCLC