Candida Albicans
If you’ve taken antibiotics to try to get rid of a bladder infection, there’s a good chance that you are now infected with Candida Albicans – the fungus that causes thrush. To be more accurate, the candida that lives naturally in your body has grown out of control, and you are probably getting symptoms as a result. These often include vaginal pain, itching and swelling, white discharge, white fungal spots around the vagina, indigestion from candidiasis (leaky gut syndrome), arthritis-like symptoms, sudden weight loss or gain, tiredness, and general malaise.
Testing for high levels of Candida in the body
A simple home test will tell you if you have Candida. Just spit in a glass of clean water. If you have Candida, thin strands of spit will soon develop, dropping down from your spittle. If you don’t have Candida, that won’t happen.
Fighting Candida
If you test positive, you might like to take some action to reduce your Candida levels back to normal. The usual way to go is try cutting out white bread, sugar, sweets, and alcohol, and taking acidophilus, yogurts, and probiotics. There is a proprietary preparation called Threelac© that is supposed to eat Candida, and you might also like to try colostrum from New Zealand. (We get ours from ”The Gut Doctor’ (Google that…) You should be aware that suddenly clearing your body of Candida is said to make you feel ill for a few days. Best to take it slowly. Ask a good nutritionist for advice.
Long term strategy
Long term, people are telling us that when they take Waterfall D-Mannose as a preventative on a regular basis, they get less and less Candida, from the simple fact that they no longer have to take antibiotics, and so the Candida does not get the chance to again flare up out of control. Combined with an anti-candida diet, and the occasional use of your own preparation of Aci-Gel, with your doctor’s advice, it seems possible that you could be free of Candida symptoms, more or less permanently.
