Posted 6/13/2015 8:47 PM (GMT 0)
"yeast master" is in!
I echo the recommendation for PURE Nystatin powder. Reasons are noted in the thread traveler posted. But in summary, most MDs prescribe various forms of Nystatin that are much more expensive and far less effective, filled w/ fillers that some people have problems digesting. Pure powder is the basis for most of the other forms and very safe to use long term, derived from the earth.
You can get it through most compounding pharmacists. Just be sure you ask your MD for PURE Nystatin Powder at 1,000,000 units. Here is a good dosing chart. If you have trouble detoxing, start more slowly as die off is immediate w/ the Nystatin killing y/f on contact. Herxing is tough, and can last a couple days. Detoxing is as important as treating the y/f.
It's also a good idea to survey the y/f impact. Do you only have a mouth problem? Do you have GI sx? Systemic sx? A lot of people have success addressing y/f overgrowth w/ natural remedies as long as a problem hasn't developed and you're not currently experiencing symptoms. If you are, it's probably too late to use natural remedies as a fix and you need to hit it hard and fast w/ some Rx.
Most yeast/fungal overgrowth starts in the gut. Good bacteria helps keep yeast, which is a natural part of the gut biome, in check. But some of us were born w/out a healthy level of good bacteria or are genetically predisposed to imbalance, and some of us cause imbalance due to antibacterial treatment or poor sugary or high simple carb diets, and sugar feeds the y/f.
So, the y/f grows disproportionately and causes tons of problems. First, it grows out of your gut and through the intestines, and/or up the esophagus and into the mouth, nose, eyes, ears, sinuses… I also had chronic sinusitis, caused by y/f in the lungs. You can also get it concentrated in the mouth if you take certain meds or alcohol based tinctures. Your mouth has its own unique biome of bacteria and yeast, and imbalance causes the white tongue, thrush, sores.
Pure Nystatin powder 1,000,000 units is great because you put it in water and swish it around in your mouth, swallow it and it coats your entire alimentary canal, throughout your intestines. Nothing else will do that. Nystatin is also super safe because it does not cross the mucosal lining, therefore it does not enter your blood stream or liver.
Systemic antifungals (the "azoles": fluconazole/diflucan, ketoconazole, etc) do not help the gut and won't do much for anything in your alimentary canal or mouth if your y/f originates in the gut. But they do get into your blood stream and can reach y/f in other areas of the body. But they are flushed through the liver and they and y/f toxins/debris can overload the liver. Liver enzymes must be checked monthly if you're on systemic antifungals. Burdock root, milk thistle seed and Burbur help suppert liver very well in case enzymes run high.
Leaky gut:
Also, y/f growing out of control in the gut grows roots into your mucosal lining, damaging it and causing holes through which fecal matter, toxins and more y/f seeps into your blood stream, spreading y/f throughout your body and causing systemic problems. Eventually, since food particles (in fecal matter) are seeping into your blood stream, which your immune system doesn't recognize, you'll start producing an immune response and you'll develop food sensitivities to everything you eat. It's a nasty cycle you should nip in the bud before it gets much worse.
Let me know if you have specific q's.
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