Best candida treatments while being treated with abx?

In addition to what you're already trying, I find coconut oil topically helps and also olive leaf extract capsules. Also drinking a lot of Kefir and taking S. Bourlardii (which digests yeast) is helpful.

Thanks summer 3. I do kefir every day, do a detox yoga, dry brushing, fir sauna and coconut oil topically (especially if I'm very itchy) every other day. I am pulsing my abx so I only get them 3 days a week.

Thanks to both of you for the s.boulardi. I will look into that as well. Great idea. Aside from the 2 days during the holidays of falling off the wagon, I have been great at stinking to my anti candida, anti inflammatory diet. Because of the diet I don't eat a lot if fat, just from cooking oils and avocado. I have a child with severe tree but allergies so I don't eat any nuts or peanuts either so no fats there either.

If anyone else has ideas I am Very open and interested.

Knowledge is power.

Bloopy,

Thank you for speaking up- my sentiments exactly.

There used to be an old outdated idea that Coconut Oil was unhealthy because of its fat content. However, more recent science has differentiated between the good and bad fats. Coconut Oil contains only the good fats which are indispensable to good health. You would die if your diet completely excluded them. Yeast surely utilizes many substances that our bodies require for good health. Common sense dictates that we should not attempt to kill ourselves in order to kill the microbes. This is self defeating. Rns- where did you ever hear that coconut Oil on its own will make yeast?

Coconut Oil is very effective in several ways, and this isn't hype. Here is a link to an article by a certified nutritionist:

http://www.wellnessresources.com/tips/articles/monolaurin_a_natural_immune_boosting_powerhouse/


Justascarf2,

Heather used diflucan and some natural products which helped a little while she was on antibiotics. After she became better and was taken off of antibiotics, her systemic yeast started to return along with her other old lyme symptoms. We used a Jernigan Nutriceutical product called "Yeast Ease," and the yeast problem vanished. Here is a very informative link to the product. It goes into detail as to why the product is superior. I am not saying that other products don't or can't work. I am saying that this product was superior to diflucan, freeze dried garlic, silver, and olive leaf extract in our experience. Be sure to eat fermented foods and/or take a high quality high count probiotic. As this article states, yeast will be a problem unless you get rid of parasites first.

http://abc.eznettools.net/D300003/X379792/Yeast-Ease_long_new.html


Don

Post Edited (Heathersdad) : 12/29/2012 7:37:59 PM (GMT-7)

GSE is indicated specifically in altering concentrations of Warfarin, Coumadin etc.
If you look into agents that act on the P450 enzymes you are going to find a giant list (including other herbals such as ginko biloba and st. john's wort).
Problem is, this interaction is being suspected from a preservative used in GSE preparations (specifically benzethonium chloride), and not the GSE itself. That is another conversation though. My point is that this should not be confused with the interactions that grapefruit juice has.

As for the coconut oil, all I can say is that you and your doctor may be the only people who subscribe to the idea that it grows yeast. After reading through hundreds of candida/yeast diets there is not a single one I've seen that forbids coconut oil. I do not know what to attribute to your negative experience with it, but people have been benefiting from it's topical use for years and almost everyone on an anti-yeast diet uses it.