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A holistic-integrative medical approach to treat candidiasis
By Marc J. Bielski, M.D.
There is no longer a doubt. Your laboratory tests are in. Your diagnosis has been made. You have candidiasis, an infection with disease-causing yeast. If you want to beat these infectious invaders, what needs to be done?
The first step is to prepare your body to eliminate your infectious invaders. Since your liver and kidneys are vital for removing toxins and wastes from your body, these organs need to be strengthened (there are other reasons). Since candidiasis often promotes malabsorption, nutritional deficiencies are common and must be corrected. Most sufferers can tolerate oral nutritional supplements. Sufferers who cannot tolerate oral supplements, those with severe malabsorption or impaired immunity, will benefit from intravenous supplementation instead.
Most often, the next step is to eradicate your disease-causing yeast, your infection. Typically, this involves killing disease-causing yeast within your tissues and blood with systemic antifungal medication, while non-absorbable medication (or herbs) can help eliminate the disease-causing yeast residing within your gut. In addition, if you have any other infectious invaders, they must be addressed, including harmful parasites, bacteria, and molds; in some cases, cell wall–deficient organisms must be considered. Fortunately, some anti-candidiasis medications also have some anti-mold activity as well, making it easier to simultaneously eliminate disease-causing yeast and harmful molds (there are exceptions).
Since candidiasis involves allergic consequences, sufferers often have a variety of sensitivities and hypersensitivities. It is essential to be tested for allergies to disease-causing yeast and harmful molds. Depending on your symptoms, you may also be tested for reactions to foods, pollen, dust, chemicals, and more. Since your allergic reactions are likely to be lifelong, an allergy immunotherapy program is the only way to desensitize you against your allergy-inducing instigators. In fact, many sufferers demonstrate minimal improvement in their symptoms, and sometimes none, until their allergies are addressed. If possible, you should also eliminate as many of your allergy-inducing culprits from your diet and surroundings.
Speaking of diet, in addition to killing your disease-causing yeast, you must starve them. Eliminating sugars from your diet and decreasing your intake of complex carbohydrates will help slow their metabolism and reproduction, impeding the generation of additional disease-causing yeast. Your diet must also be yeast-free and mold-free. This prevents allergic reactions and reinfections with these troublemakers, and it eliminates their harmful toxins and metabolites from your foods. Of course, you must also eliminate your allergy-inducing foods. To prevent a relapse, you must replenish your population of beneficial (good) bacteria.
If you have symptoms or illness that require the use of one or more medications, you must be medically supervised. In fact, all sufferers are cautioned against undertaking anti-candidiasis therapy without appropriate medical supervision. Guidance by a knowledgeable and experienced candidiasis-minded physician can prevent you from making mistakes, avoid undesirable consequences, and save you from wasting time and money. Appropriate medical care is not just recommended, it is often essential.
Yes, you can beat your candidiasis when you know what you are doing and why. Understanding the weaknesses of these infectious invaders will ensure your success. Your infection, allergies, nutritional deficiencies, metabolic disturbances, impaired immunity, and so on can all be corrected once you are armed with the appropriate knowledge. Many sufferers have beaten their candidiasis. If you follow the recommendations in “Unraveling Candidiasis,” you are certain to be one of them.
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