Please help me! I’ve been on the Candida diet for 10 weeks now and apart from 2 minor lapses I have been gluten, yeast, sugar, dairy and fruit free all that time.
But now I have started with an outbreak of thrush!! The whole reason for starting the diet was to stop the frequent bouts of thrush, more than 10 times a year! The docs have found no reason for all the bouts of thrush.
I’m not diabetic, but I’ve also used lots of antibiotics from an early age with having pneumonia as a baby and recurrent chest infections. Also, used a lot of oral steroids due to asthma. However I’ve not used either of them for a while now.
I don’t know what to do now. Maybe I’m being unrealistic in expecting things to be sorted so quickly, after all its taken over 30 years of yeast infections to get to this point.
I don’t want to start taking meds from the docs as I want to treat it as naturally as possible. Please help as it is really distressing me.
In a general sense, most people begin to see relief in two months, but severe cases can take longer. It sounds like you might be on the severe side of things.
Make sure that you’re taking a good multivitamin, getting enough fiber, and using probiotics to increase the helpful bacteria in your system. By probiotics I don’t necessarily mean pill form, but natural sources like I’ve written about here.
Add some other supplements like olive leaf, turmeric, and Pau d’arco tea. In any event, if you have made it 10 weeks without a yeast infection that is pretty good since you were pretty much averaging 1 a month before.
Just stay true to the course and hopefully in a few more weeks you’ll have your problems with chronic yeast infections under control for good.
All the Best,
Ted

I was surprised a few months ago when a saliva test for Candida revealed why I was having some pretty ghastly symptoms; (stomach and intestinal gas, nasty face rash, carb cravings, etc.)

At the age of 15 I began to get chronic urinary tract infections, vaginal yeast infections, and bacterial vaginosis. My parents dragged me from doctor to doctor desperately seeking a cure for my problems, but our concerns fell on deaf ears and we were usually sent on our way with the usual 7 – 10 courses of antibiotics and/or anti-fungal medications.




