Yeast

[Tracey77]

Hi girls - I suffer from frequent yeast infections and want to start eating yogurt again. Can anyone recommend a good brand that doesn't have sooo much sugar. Does anyone else seem to have this problem, I know it's too much dairy but I refuse to give up my coffee with heavy cream in the morning. Any other recomendations are greatley appreciated. Thanks Tracey

Tracey,

I found a website with all kind out home remediese that don't envolve having to eat yogurt: www.msu.edu/user/eisthen/yeast/
Check it out.
Hope you feel better soon!

[kusomsen]

Me again. (I'm kusomsen - for some reason it didn't take my signin earlier)

I don't know if it is listed on the website, but you can buy acidophilus pills at health food stores and large supermarkets. The ones that are kept in the refrigerator are the best. You may want to consider to take those on a daily basis to help prevent those beasties.
LOL

Katrin

Hi folks,

Eating yogurt, while a great thing, will not cure candida by itself.

I've walked this road and have a bunch of info on my personal site. The link is in my sig. Let me know if I can help...

Blessings!
Sharron
Author of "Low Carb Cooking at Sharron's Place," and "Extreme Lo-Carb Cuisine" to be released in December

www.thelowcarbcook.com

[Mona]

I just want to pipe in, that ALL dairy bothers my yeast including yogurt. So, although some people with candida can eat it , not everyone can.



Victors are really just temporary quitters who then regroup with a vengeance.

[Tracey77]

Thanks girls, I will check out the info!!

[trudie]

The hospital/gyno should give you tablets to kill it off permanently, you may have to have an examination and more than one treatment, but it's worth it

[Tracey77]

Trude - I would like to hear more about this treatment - is there a name or a link I can hook up too?

[Kimi]

I have used this too. It is called Diflucan. It is by prescription only. It is one pill taken once. It will kill of the yeast causing a yeast infection by about 2 days after the pill (or less). Works way better than topicals. You might want to do some reading about systemic yeast to find out why you are getting recurring infections. I suggest the book "The Yeast Connection." Also Dr. Atkins talks a lot about it in his book "The New Diet Revolution" and "Health Rovolution."

[Kimi]

P.S. Nothing will kill it off permanently. Everytime you use antibiotics your body will recolonize with yeast. High sugar consumption will do it too, unfortunately. People eat yogurt for yeast because it contains acidophillus. So like Kartin said, you would be far better off using the yeast free, sugar free acidophillus caspules. Good luck to you!

[trudie]

The one I was given was from the hospital and had to have swab tests taken that got sent away. Diflucan is only an over the counter medecine here (you can just go in and buy it now), so may only work in the short term, my GP didn't even bother trying to prescribe anything like that and referred me to the Gu clinic( bear in mind that they have to make sure you have what you think you have ) I was given SPORADOX tablets ( kills off the spores) and they said IF it came back I should go back for another treatment. It's not been a problem since and that was 4 years ago. It's just a shame that those sorts of treatments cost the health service so much as we'd all be treated more efficiently.

[Kimi]

That is really interesting. I am a nurse here in the US and we don't have anything like that that I am aware of. Systemic yeast is not even well accepted in western medicine here. Having something that actually kills the spores would certainly work a whole lot better. What kind of tests do they run to see if that is your problem? I sure wish Diflucan was available over the counter here. It is by prescription only and it is expensive! Thanks for the update.

[buffie]

Hi Girls,
Here in the States we do have a drug called Sporanox, however,it's not widely prescriped for yeast.

I thing that I learned for my self is that when I treated myself I treated my DH too. If you have "relations" during the early stages your partner can become a "carrier".
So there for you get rid of it, he still has it. Then when you again have "relations" you can get it for him again.
I haven't has the ongoing problem since I have "we" treat together.
In the parmacy we always suggest it when people use OTC products
-buffie

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HAVE A GREAT DAY!!

[Kumus]

Apparently there is a drug in the U.S. called itraconazole or Sporanox. It's considered an antifungal medication and is only administered for severe yeast infections.

Read more about it here:
http://www.emedicine.com/aaem/topic469.htm

Susan


LCE Member since 01/02
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[trudie]

yep, that's it. See if you can be prescribed that