Ohhhh… doctors. Why must you make everything so complicated….
I don't know why, but on aggregate, the medical profession insists that yeast/fungal overgrowth "doesn't exist". Yet, they acknowledge that it's a common and difficult issue w/ HIV & AIDS patients. That somehow, the rest of us are magically immune to it.
Your MD's response is pretty strange, as most people here have MDs prescribing antifungals while we're on abx (which ALL MDs should do if they prescribe abx). But MDs don't really understand digestion very well, its process, and certainly don't study nutrition in med school. It's maddening. But most of us develop y/f overgrowth and crazy symptoms, we start on antifungals, the symptoms go away. I don't get the complication.
So—back to your question, some MDs do blood tests. But yeast/fungal overgrowth usually starts in the gut because most people take abx orally, disrupting the gut flora and that's where the overgrowth develops. If left untreated, the yeast grows roots through the mucosal lining of the gut, leaking y/f into the bloodstream and that's how people get systemic y/fungal overgrowth.
So, it's good to do stool tests (Doctor's Data will also tell you what antifungals are effective against what y/f it finds). Other MDs only do blood tests. The tests are not always reliable but they do help MDs confirm if they're not comfortable w/ a clinical dx.
An ND would probably be more educated about
y/f overgrowth than a regular MD.
-p
Post Edited (Pirouette) : 9/4/2015 6:34:34 PM (GMT-6)