Yeast Overgrowth Treatment

Yeast Overgrowth Treatment

After four months on the program, including six weeks on Diflucan, all but one of the participants ... experienced a very significant improvement in their condition. The majority reported feeling better than they had in years ...
 
Any medication that can potentially cause gastrointestinal ulcerations or inflammation and weaken the lining of the gut can allow candida to gain a stronger and deeper foothold ... While candida thrives on it, sugar weakens our immune system. It decreases the ability of white blood cells, phagocytes in particular, to engulf unwanted organisms ...
 

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Typically in patients with chronic sinusitis, the primary causes are: 

1. repeated broad-spectrum antibiotics, along with 
2. a sugarfilled diet and 
3. significant emotional stress.

As a general rule in medicine, as in life, there is rarely just one cause for anything. However, in my experience, in almost every instance of a particularly resistant case of chronic sinusitis, candida is a primary cause.

In a September 2002 letter to me, Dr. David Morris, M.D., a Lacrosse, Wisconsin allergist, offered comprehensive diagnostic and treatment options for the allergic patient:
 
I'm very proud and pleased with the number of people I've been able to help with chronic sinus problems - probably several thousand patients over the last 10 years ... These people are very grateful to get help ...
 
We know from the research at the Mayo Clinic that over 90% of people with chronic sinus problems showed fungi in their nose and sinuses, and in more than 20%, it was candida.
 
Dr. Morris, a fellow of the American College of Allergy and Immunology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology, carried out pioneer work using sublingual therapy for people with food and chemical sensitivity.
 
He said that he prescribed Diflucan in helping many of these patients, and if they were more allergic to aspergillus than to candida, he used Sporanox, two or three capsules, twice weekly, with food.
 
In commenting on sinusitis, Charles W. Cox, M.D., a recently retired otolaryngologist in Jackson, Tennessee, said:
 
The gold standard for treatment of chronic sinusitis that has failed to clear with appropriate antibiotic therapy allergy and environmental control measures remains surgical. By relieving the obstruction to sinus drainage pathways, the majority of cases will be cured.
 
In discussing allergic fungal sinusitis, Dr. Cox said that it had been poorly understood until the recently published studies by Mayo Clinic otolaryngologists that showed a high incidence of fungal organisms. Fungal sinusitis is primarily a defect in the immune system, and long-term broad-spectrum antibiotics predispose people to develop fungi in their sinuses.

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In his continuing discussion he said that more and more otolaryngologists and other physicians are using topical antifungal medications and some are using oral antifungal medications. Controlling the environment by removing fungal contamination and using environmentally safe methods may be the key to the long-term control of fungal sinusitis. To find out more, you can check out Yeast Overgrowth Treatment.