Diets For Yeast Infections

Diets For Yeast Infections

Here it comes: the special sugar-free, anti-yeast diet I've mentioned so many times. It is the centerpiece of the entire anti-yeast plan.

I don't mean to sound harsh here, but it's important that you understand this: Without the diet, you won't get the results you are hoping for. You can take the medications and the supplements, and they may or may not help. You may feel better for a while, and then find your symptoms have returned.
 

Diets For Yeast Infections

If your health problems are yeast-connected, you must eliminate sugar from your diet for at least three weeks and probably indefinitely.

Natural Remedies For Candida - Program To Regain Health (Part 2)

Natural Remedies For Candida

6. Non-prescription Anticandida Supplements 

After you've completed the first four steps, you're ready to add supplements that help control the candida overgrowth:

Natural Remedies For Candida

• Probiotics: These preparations of lactobacillus acidophilus and other friendly probiotic bacteria (literally meaning pro-life, rather than antibiotic or anti-life) help crowd out candida in your digestive tract. Usual dose: ¼ to ½ tsp. of powder or 1-2 capsules, one-to-four times daily.

Natural Remedies For Yeast Infections - Programs To Regain Health (Part 1)

Natural Remedies For Yeast Infections

If this blog can give you just one thing, I hope it is the realization that:

You can overcome your health problems and get your life back on track!
 
Believing this simple statement is your crucial first step. Of course, you'll need help, including professionals and non-professionals. You'll need love and support from family members, friends, and support groups.

Natural Remedies For Yeast Infections

Make this your motto: "If it's going to be, it's up to me." 

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 ...
 

Yeast Overgrowth Treatment

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.

Candida Overgrowth Symptoms - Sinusitis

Candida Overgrowth Symptoms

Sinusitis follows on the heels of asthma and allergies. In fact, it's closely connected and, I suspect, yeast plays just as important a part in the aggravating symptoms of sinusitis.

Almost 32 million Americans suffer from chronic sinusitis. That's 16.3% of the population and I was surprised to learn the majority of the sufferers are women.
 

Candida Overgrowth Symptoms

I've been interested in sinusitis since my medical school days. AIthough I enjoyed excellent health, I was bothered by a stuffy nose and mucus in the back of my throat. Although I tried various therapies, I was bothered by these problems until I visited internist/allergist Theron Randolph in Chicago in the mid-1990s.

How Can I Treat A Yeast Infection - Success Stories

How Can I Treat A Yeast Infection

Tabitha Vernier 

In February 2001 I received an e-mail from Kathy Vernier of Virginia. She told me about her daughter's long struggle with respiratory problems. Here are excerpts:

Tabitha has been troubled by sinus problems, bronchitis and recurrent bouts of asthma since early childhood ... She's also been hospitalized several times. Then three years ago, we took her to Dr. George Ward, a physician in the allergy department at the University of Virginia ... Although Tabitha gave no history of skin fungal infections, he prescribed Diflacan and it proved to be a wonder drug, enabling her to overcome her asthma and lead a normal life.
 

How Can I Treat A Yeast Infection

To get more information, I called Tabitha in May 2001 and with her permission, I recorded our conversation. Here are excerpts of the transcript:

Candida And Allergies - Yeast Related

Candida And Allergies

Based on the research studies of Iwata and Witkin in the 1960s and 1970s, and the clinical observations of Dr. Truss, superficial yeast infections may adversely affect the immune system, which, in turn, may adversely affect many different parts of the body. Yet, I'd never thought about the yeast relation to asthma until a physician friend added a note to a Christmas card I received in the early 1990s that said, "One of my patients with intrinsic asthma showed a marvelous response to Nizoral." 

My interest in the yeast connection to allergies increased when I read two 1994 abstracts published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. One of these abstracts cited the observations of Belgium researchers who described the favorable response of some of their asthmatic patients to (ketoconazole) Nizoral. They found that four out of five of their asthmatic patients treated with this antifungal drug improved, while four out of five of the placebo group did not improve.
 

Candida And Allergies

A second abstract, published by researchers at the University of Virginia, described a study of 10 patients with asthma and associated fungal infections of their feet. In a randomized study, they found that eight of the ten asthmatic patients were able to reduce their steroid dosage with no adverse reactions to fluconazole (Diflucan), in a dose of 100 mg. daily, were noted in any of the 10 patients, including "those maintained on fluconazole for up to two years."