Thrush

Also what doctor do I see for thrush?

I see your signature with immunosuppressants now. I've always gotten treatment from my GI, even gotten scripts from the GI through messaging him.

I don't think the antifungals have too many side effects so your GI might be willing to give it a try even without an office visit.

I used the Nystatin (nystatin oral) Suspension last time I had a Candida problem, and I have a feeling it is probably more effective than lozenges, as you have to gargle and swallow the liquid, as apparently thrush can sometimes affect your esophagus. I had to buy 4 bottles though, as they are small, and ultimately this worked well for me. Are you using something like Candex as well? The problem with Candida is that it is tough to eradicate, and so you have to really go at it relentlessly to shift it, which means using something like Diflucan, Candex, Nystatin oral, Probiotics, Yogurt, no alcohol and hardly any sugar, it is a bit depressing for sure, but doable. One other tip is to try taking apple cider vinegar every morning in a small glass of water, its well documented that it seems to help people a lot.

I get occasional thrush from the inhaled steroid I take for asthma. I have used liquid Nystatin in the past but have had good luck with clotrimazole lozenges (troches).

Your general practitioner should be willing to prescribe what you need.

gargling warm salt water can help too

I meant to mention that you will need to give your partner a Diflucan tablet also.

You can also swish with apple cider vinegar, 1:1 with water for 30 seconds three times a day. Thrush is a beast. When my older son was 4 he got Lyme disease and was on antibiotics for 21 days. Of course he got thrush after 10 days and our pediatrician suggested the vinegar trick along with probiotics We did this with him for the rest of the time he was on the antibiotic and for a week afterward and it worked like a charm.

You don't need to change your diet to get rid of thrush, or even take anti-fungals.

Most people have 5 or 6 different species of candida living in their cut, forming a fungal bio-layer that protects the GI from invasion. Candida albicans, the species that everyone refers to as "candida", is one of them.

When you take antibiotics or immune suppressants, most of them die or lay dormant. Candida albicans is the only one that thrives, even after antibiotics. What you need to do is introduce a probiotic that contains some other strains of yeast, and those will suppress c. albicans permanently.

Unless the thrush is really, really bad and causing complications, I would not use an oral antibiotic. It just makes candida worse down the road. I used diflucan, hydrogen peroxide (3% food grade), apple cider vinegar, and a few other things... nothing really worked, it always came back, especially because I was on prednisone which suppresses the immune system.

What ended up working was ingesting ferments, especially milk kefir, but kombucha also helped. Home made kefir contains 6 strains of yeast, most of them native to the human body. Once you replenish the other strains of yeast, they keep c. albicans in check. The reason why most people never "kill candida" is because it's not supposed to be completely killed. It's just kept in check by the other strains, which are absent when you take antibiotics. In other words we're supposed to have c. albicans in the body. It's not an "infection", it's native. It just overgrows when it has no impediments.