The real Cause and Cure of UC???

Have you tried the Specific Carbohydrate Diet? Seems to fit the candida model.
It is a healthy diet and can't hurt you because it is balanced nutritionally with lots of protein and veggies.
It has really improved my very tough case of UC.
But it is also hard to shop in the grocery store which is filed with ugly carbo and sugar-filled foods.

I still take Balsalazide but stopped the 6mp due to much improved symptoms. 13 weeks on SCD.

I agree with Sue bear.  I haven't heard of this theory but I have heard dozens of other ones.  Just my two cents.

MyUC

Yeah I would have voted that candida yeast infection could be a contributor but not that it is a cause. Agreed with Dr-A

Interesting though - bacterial imbalance in the colon seems definitely to be a contributing factor with many sufferers.

After prolonged antibiotics the balance is upset and candida can overrun the gut.

For myself I can say after my UC was triggered, and i stopped taking all the antibiotics that i went to the chemist and made sure I got the OTC single dose tablet for thrush treatment - because thrush is candida albicans.

So i wanted to cut down the population of candida inside me and terraform my gut ecosystem.

I took the tablet and then took lots of probiotics to prevent the candida taking so much real estate in my gut. I think it probably helped.

One thing I definitely notice after cutting back the candida is this:

i stop craving sugar

I go from a real sweet tooth ravenously devouring a chocolate bar a day to nothing

I mean easter passed by and i wouldn't have eaten any chocolate at all if my mother and brother hadn't given me eggs that i felt obligated to eat.

Tonight i had a rich mousse cake but only because i went to a cafe with my flatmate, and i just felt sick after.

But when you have a raging candida infection you just crave sugar no end.

Candida albicans is definitely evil. It causes tinea and blotchy red skin rashes in diabetics like a fat old friend of mine. He took probiotics and a thrush tablet that i gave him and it cleared him up.

The gut/colon is very poorly understood

there is NO cure for UC that is known

But what is known is that you are not just you. You are not 1 organism. You are an ecosystem. You are a universe teeming with life. There are more bacteria living on and in you than you can count stars in the night sky.

You need to take care of them - you live in symbiosis with them.

Knocking out some candida and taking up territory with benign probiotics can help i think. Maybe not everyone but it helped me.

Helminths look interesting too. I want to try hookworms.

But a big PS: In my case, I think that chinese herbs are nothing but superstition and won't do any good. Plus will do a lot of harm and are not based on science. Plus they kill a lot of endangered animals to get their essence of snow-leopard yadda yadda yadda to stick in those pills. Black rhino horn anyone? Same goes for most naturopathy and homeopathy. It's got to make sense and have some science behind it for me. Sorry if that offends anyone but there are charlatans out there who love making money out of people's misery and the chinese medicine/naturopathy world is FULL of them.

it would be a separate issue and not to say one couldn't have it as well.
It's certainly nothing new.

q

I think my initial Flare was caused by yeast but that's just a hunch. I did drink a lot of beer, which I think contains yeast, and later on I had white spots on my neck and a dermatologist told me it was yeast. As I spent more time outside in the son, my skin got darker but the yeast remained white and that's when the spots appeared. Why did I have these spots after my UC? Why does my UC seem to improve with diet and not with prescriptions? That's why I think yeast or candida has a lot to do with it.

I am on an anti candida diet which was designed by a man named Gerald Green, Gerald is into curing cancer and has a really high success rate. My UC is in remission, and I use no medication at the present. UC I believe is caused by candida. Basically if you get candida in your large intestine they call it colitis, if its in the small they call it crohns, if it is in the muscles it is Multiple Sclerosis, and in the privates, Thrush. It takes years to illiminate it so if you start eating things that are off limits the candida quickly multiplies. So it is true that UC is caused by the same organism as thrush, go figure.

hellokiitty, I don't know what book you're reading or other drugs you're taking, but what you're saying is clearly a trip.

q

For me it was antibiotics that caused my colitis, not candida yeast. The only cure for UC is removal of the colon.

I agree with Quincy, this is a trip!

Sue

imagardener2 said...
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The candida diet people agree with you to some extent that antibiotics wipe out the good gut flora allowing candida to overrun the gut. The diet is geared to restore the balance, replace the good guys and lower the candida flora.

I agree. Broad spectum antibiotics wipe out everything - the good gut flora along with the bad. When the good flora is gone, there's no longer any system of checks and balances to keep opportunistic flora from over growing. Queen is right, candida albicans - in and of itself - is a normal part of the body ecology. Problems occur when it gets out of balance and can cause a variety of symptoms throughout the body.

Queen of the colon Gerald uses the same diet for MS that he does for colitis and crohns. We do have an auto immun illness as our immunity i can only guess that our bodys resond to sugar in the wrong way. no it doesnt take years of diets to reduce the candida but it does take years for our immunity to work in the right way and to respond to the sugar in the right way.  the diets work and he uses the same anti candida diet for all his illness. I only know as i would be in hospital if i didnt use this method. im not lucky is to where the medication works. it just stops working. for me i would rather do this diet then be sick and risk losing my colon. for some peole if they lose their colons they still have problems any way and still wind up on meds so what is the point. I beleive Gerald has found the answer its the only answer. Although it will never be proven by diet as there is not that many people who can stick to the diet long engough to prove that they work. oh i use a herb called golden seal and woodworm to ellimate the candida. also psyillium

Hello Kitty,
Would you mind sharing a little bit more about your experience? How severe was your UC and for how long? How long until you started seeing results with the diet? And how long has it been working? Are you very strict with the diet? Anything else you can share?

I know this information would be just anecdotal and does not mean that what worked for you will work for everyone; but that's what great about this forum is hearing what works for different people.

I am intrigued. Thanks!