What Is Candida And Do I Have It?

Have you ever taken a broad spectrum antibiotic for a period of time? Did you take birth control pills? Were you on prednisone or a similar steroid? Does your body tend to swell with the heat, and are the symptoms worse on damp, muggy days or in moldy places? Does your stomach get distended and uncomfortable after eating fruit or any sugar ladened food? Do you have constant gas pains and or severe gas? Do you have rectal itching? Brain-Fog? Discolored patches of skin? Fungus on your finger or toenails? Do have a constant sinus headache or have you been diagnosed with sinusitis? n
There are millions of people with the above symptoms and more, who cannot figure out what is wrong with them or what to do about it. If any of the above rings true for you then you may be suffering from a yeast overgrowth in your intestinal tract , that has been referred to as Candida Albicans, Candida, a systemic yeast or fungal infection.

Candida is a pathogen, caused by a fungus that develops as a result of an over growth of yeast in the body. Candida can cause a wide variety of symptoms in generally healthy people to life-threatening systemic infections in individuals with impaired immunity. It may be the cause of almost all cases of the most frequently reported chronic diseases and conditions.

The problem with Candida is that it is an amazingly opportunistic and adaptive organism. All it needs for Candida to invade your gut is for something to kill off the normal flora; the bacteria that aids digestion and protects the gut from yeast.

Once the flora are damaged, yeast will invade. In ideal circumstances, Candida can double in quantity every half hour, so it takes very little time for it to populate a damaged intestine.

Once in the gut, candida creates an environment that prevents the normal flora from repopulating. The lack of flora causes mal-digestion of certain sugars, carbohydrates, minerals and trace nutrients and leaves food to rot in the gut, creating an ideal environment for the Candida.

Taking yeast medication like Diflucan or Nystatin temporarily relieve symptoms, but unless measures are taken to correct whatever caused Candida in the first place and to repopulate the gut with friendly bacteria, the yeast will simply grow back, hence reports that using Dyflucan or Nystatin to help alleviate symptoms, the effect at best, is usually only temporary.

Once the yeast has overgrown the gut, malnutrition will result, in the form of vitamin and trace nutrient deficiencies. In addition, the constant presence of a pathogen will stimulate the immune system twenty-four, seven, times three hundred and sixty five days a week; eventually causing immune deficiency and severe fatigue.
Candida can manage to hide (sometimes for years) in parts of the body where traditional therapies don’t always reach, in our joints, for example and the deep folds of the intestines. It thrives on the foods that are a large part of the typical American diet, which in addition alters intestinal pH unfavorably. Stress contributes to its proliferation, as does refined sugar. And because of its adaptability, it can be easily transmitted from person to person in a family. Mothers can pass it to their children through breast feeding, or through the birth canal, and of course, through intimate contact with their partners. n .
It is important to find a qualified health care practioner that has had experience in treating people who have had Candida
Candida can be taken care of through a special diet , proper treatment and supplementation with herbs and or homeopathic remedies
The symptoms mentioned in this article are all related to Candida. With proper care it can be remedied once and for all., and you can return to a normal diet without the bothersome and sometimes debilitating side effects of the abnormal over growth of yeast known as Candidan nn