Category Archives: Yeast Infection Signs And Symptoms
Yeast Infection Signs And Symptoms Vary Widely But Can Include Vaginal Thrush Or Discharge, Athlete’s Foot Or Jock Itch, Toe Nail Fungus, Psoriasis Or Eczema, Diaper Rash And Many More Signs And Symptoms. This Page Covers The Common And Rare Signs And Symptoms Of A Candida Yeast Infection.
When I was in my twenties, I had quite a bad problem with mold and fungus due to an old house that I was living in at the time. I didn’t know it, but the roof was leaking. When it rained, I would get one to two inches of water in the bedroom, and I would have to bail. The walls had a black slimy mold traveling towards the ceiling. I didn’t realize how bad that was for my health.
I developed a cough, itchy skin, sneezing, rhinitis, hay fever, and allergies. Eventually, I developed a bad case of bronchitis and ended up on antibiotics, which spiraled me into a Candida infection. When it comes to signs and symptoms of a mold allergy, there are several indicators.
Mold in the house is often hidden from view. It can high up on the roof or down low where the floor meets the wall. Usually, if you get a ladder and poke around, you can see little blue, black, or green dots of mold. It’s estimated that one in four houses in North America have leaky building syndrome, which can include mold.
Common symptoms of mold toxicity or allergy include fatigue, muscle weakness, headaches, and photophobia (aka light sensitivity). Other symptoms include poor concentration, poor memory, word-finding difficulty, and feeling like you’re going out of your mind. Stiffness, joint pain, shortness of breath, sinus congestion, a scratchy throat or palate, appetite changes, and temperature dysregulation can all be caused by a mold allergy.
Sore, red, itchy eyes and digestive symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, and bloating can stem from mold exposure.
An unusual symptom seen in some people with mold problems is feeling as if they have electric shocks in their bodies. It’s a little like static shocks.
As you can see, there is a whole raft of signs and symptoms of mold illness. If you have any of these indicators, you may want to get your house checked out to see if mold is at play.
If you can incorporate these 10 foods into your diet, it should help you significantly with symptoms like gas, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea.
1. Jerusalem artichoke:
Jerusalem artichokes are sweet-tasting tubers from the sunflower family. You can roast, fried, or grate Jerusalem artichokes.
Jerusalem artichokes contain a lot of inulin, a type of prebiotic sugar.
The prebiotics in Jerusalem artichokes will travel right through to the colon and feed the beneficial bacteria. Some clients with low levels of lactobacillus and bifidobacteria experience big increases after eating Jerusalem artichoke for several months.
You only need one or two small pieces of Jerusalem artichoke per day to increase the beneficial bacteria. If you’ve got a very sensitive digestive tract, don’t go crazy on Jerusalem artichokes because you could end up with a very upset stomach.
2. Bananas:
Be careful with bananas on the Candida diet. Plantain bananas (sometimes also called green bananas) are okay if you have Candida, particularly if they’re cooked in coconut milk, which adds even more antifungal capacity.
There are a lot of compounds in bananas that build good health and reduce inflammation. Bananas contain prebiotics that help increase beneficial bacteria.
Make sure you eat bananas when they are not to brown and not too green. A banana a day is a fantastic way to build excellent colonic health.
3. Garlic
Garlic is both a prebiotic and an antimicrobial. Garlic helps to clean up unwanted bacteria and yeast in the gut. Garlic also helps boost beneficial bacteria.
A 2013 study published in Food Science and Human Wellness found that garlic boosted the creation of many good gut microbes. Research shows that garlic prevents many gastrointestinal diseases.
Garlic is good, but make sure you purchase garlic that’s organic and locally grown. Don’t buy garlic imported from Asia where’s it’s been irradiated and potentially contains heavy metals.
4. Butter
Butter may seem like an unlikely candidate in this list of healthy foods, but butter contains some excellent fats. The good lipids in butter can help establish good hormonal health. Butter contains butyric acid, a fatty acid that contributes to colonic health. Clarified butter, or Ghee, is even healthier than regular butter. Ghee has been linked to reduced inflammation.
Make sure the butter you eat is organic and from grass-fed cows.
5. Cruciferous vegetables
Cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale contain glucosinolates, a compound that helps break down toxins in the body. The sulfur-containing metabolites found in cruciferous vegetables are broken down by microbes into substances that reduce inflammation and the risk of certain cancers.
Cruciferous vegetables can also help build up the levels of beneficial bacteria like lactobacillus. I suggest having cruciferous vegetables daily.
6. Berries
Berries contain many different compounds that have positive health benefits. Some of the compounds in berries reduce inflammation and oxidative stress. Berry pigments such as anthocyanins are antioxidants. Berries have different types of fiber that have a positive effect on beneficial gut bacteria.
7. Beans
All kinds of beans can improve your gut health. The fiber in legumes helps strengthen intestinal cells and intestinal walls. Legumes can also help with constipation and bloating.
Beans encourage proper weight loss because they leave you feeling full. You get protein when you eat beans while benefiting the beneficial bacteria in your gut. Legumes contain B vitamins and folate, which play a powerful role in regulating gut function.
8. Fermented foods
I recommend eating fermented foods, particularly the plant-based ones, miso and tempeh. Tempeh is basically tofu that has inoculated with bacteria leading to fermentation.
Fermented foods are very powerful in terms of inoculating your gut with good bacteria and allowing the proliferation of beneficial bugs.
In addition to miso and tempeh, you could consider sauerkraut, kefir, yogurt, kimchi, or the Greek drink, kumis.
Be careful with fermented foods if you have a weak digestive system or are early on in recovery from a gut problem. You can end up feeling very sick if you incorporate fermented foods into your diet too quickly.
9. Seaweed
Many studies demonstrate the positive effect of seaweed on beneficial bacteria in the gut. A study of Japanese women found that high seaweed intake increases many different strains of good bacteria. Another study suggested that alginate, a substance in brown seaweed, can strengthen the gut mucous membrane, slow down digestion, and improve constipation.
Seaweeds contain an abundance of minerals and a massive amount of fiber.
10. Apples
Green apples are particularly good because they contain so many substances that build health. A 2014 study published in Food Chemistry found green apples boost good gut bacteria.
Apples also contain malic acid, which is helpful to people with fatigue. Take some magnesium supplements and have one or two green apples a day. It does wonders for energy, sleep, and metabolism. Apples are also great for weight management.
You will get a noticeable benefit from adding these 10 foods into your diet. I would call these ten foods some of the best for your gut. There are other strong contenders like avocado, but these ten still have impressive benefits.
I often get asked, “What are some good recipes for candida? I’m on a candida cleanse. What can I really eat for dinner? What can I eat for breakfast?” So for evening meal, you’ve got so many options. I don’t really have page after page, after page of recipes for you that are all designed exactly for you to make. I’ve got so many recipes myself, but most of the eating I do is combined around a few basic ingredients and I think it’s easy for you to do a similar kind of thing. We’re quite fortunate during the COVID-19 outbreak that we grow a lot of our own food. So a lot of vegetables, I will use in cooking. This time of year, I will use a lot of brassicas. So lots of broccoli, leeks, cauliflower. So a meal for me could often be just these things put in a casserole or steamed. They’ll be cooked up and they’ll be served either with some type of a grain dishes.
Now, it could be a legume dish, it could be with chickpeas or it could be with chicken or fish or beef or some type of meat protein. But the recipes I have are very basic, they’re very simple, and it’s not hard to cook very basic food. That’s how I eat. I don’t eat very complicated dishes. I’m a simple person and I like simple food and I think that’s the way it should be. And it’s the same for you. If you want to get your gut and your health improved, just stick with basic fare. There are so many recipes you can find on the internet. Just make sure that these recipes don’t include the typical allergens or irritants for the gut, like white flour, sugar and things like that. You don’t really want to start baking or making lots of those sort of things at the moment.
Just stick with really basic recipes; meaning things that you’ve probably got at home right now, like vegetables, fruits, meats, and things like that. You can’t really go wrong, all right? The only canned foods, which I find are not too bad on a candida cleanse, as I mentioned before, would be maybe canned tomatoes or some tin fish like sardines or some tuna, but most of the other things you shouldn’t really source in tins, so that’s why it’s good to make up your own meals at night from scratch. For example, I made a casserole yesterday, so it was steak, just steak I had in the freezer, which I defrosted, which I browned up with butter and olive oil, pepper and salt. And then I took that out of the pan, those chunks, and there was, of course, some gravy left there. I put sliced onions in there, mixed all those up.
I put a tiny bit of flour in there, probably about half a tablespoon, just to sort of bind it a bit. Pepper and salt again, Worcester sauce or Worcestershire sauce, I think the Americans call it. A few Bay leaves went in there, cook it all up, throw that with the meat and then just chuck a whole bunch of veggies in and that’s a casserole basically. Add a little bit more water; it’s simple to make good food. Eggs are easy to cook, meats are easy to cook, vegetables are easy to steam. You can also grill things. So yeah, but have a good look online, but try and keep the sugar out of the recipes if you can. Try and keep the artificial flavorings and colors and packets of… soup packet mixes and junk like that, try and keep them out. Just basic plain fare.
And while you’re at it, put some fresh herbs and spices in there or some dried stuff, okay? Especially good for candida cleanse, particularly if you’re going to use garlic and ginger, all the ingredients I’ve spoken about quite a lot; lots of different types of spices. You could add clove for example. You could put cardimum in there. There’s so many things you can add. Check it out online.
Everybody in New Zealand is staying in their home for at least four weeks, and we’re allowed a little bit out to the supermarket but that’s about it. I’m really lucky. I’m one of the few people that is in quite a good position because we’ve always grown a lot of our own food. In fact, we’ve got trees full of fruits and we’ve got loads of vegetables growing. I just feel so upset for some people who’ve got it really hard at the moment. But take each day at a time and you’ll pull through it no problem.
Let’s talk about how to know if you need a candida cleanse or how to spot the candida patient. I’m going to read some information from yeastinfection.org and this is where you can get this information from too if you want. So this page is called yeast infections signs and symptoms, or how to spot, basically, people. So I’ll read a little bit off here.
Let’s have a look here. I’ll just read this straight off the page. I have, in most cases, found that when a patient comes into my clinic with a very restricted diet and multiple digestive complaints complaining of many food allergies and sensitivities, that there is a chance that they may have a major candida problem. Many such patients will often have bags full of supplements including probiotics, enzymes, parasite cleansers, immune boosters, bowel products. So if this is you, if you’ve got multiple products for multiple symptoms, then this could well be you.
So if we look further on the page, there are so many signs and symptoms of candida, but some of them really will lead me straight to that conclusion, particularly bloating and flatulence. If the person’s got a lot of gas, a lot of bloating, especially if they like sugar, if they crave sugar, if they’ve got multiple allergies, they can’t handle food anymore. So generally it will start small and start ramping up and building, particularly if you’ve been taking antibiotics or an oral contraceptive pill or medications like that.
So if we look further on this page, the common, telltale signs, here are the most common ones are written down here. Fatigue, bloating, gas, food allergies, carbohydrate cravings, thrush or vaginitis, depression and anxiety, impaired memory, foggy brain is another one, tired or malaise, toe nail fungus, systolic, urethritis, urinary tract infections, painful burning, stinging sensations, loss of libido, stiff creaking joints, muscle pain, inhalent allergies, multiple chemical sensitives, sinusitis, persistent cough, mucus, indigestion, and the other big one is, of course, discolored finger nails or toe nails.
So these are lots and lots of different little signs and symptoms you’ll see there. But remember, there’s always a cause. Something started this, so you’ve got to really try and find what started it. In my situation, when I was in my 20s, it was antibiotics that I took for a chest infection. That’s what started me off on candida. So if you’ve been taking antibiotics, it may well be that you have got an underlying yeast problem.
So after this whole COVID-19 thing has died down, I urge you to go and get checked out further and get to see what’s really going on in your tummy. Is it bacterial? Is it parasitic? Or is it yeast? Or is it a combination of all three? So in a subsequent video I’ll talk more about the difference between the parasite problem and the candida problem, how you can pick the differences between them subtly, because you can.
You know you need a candida cleanse when you’ve just can’t agree with a whole bunch of things that I’ve just told you there.
Now, many times in my clinical years, the question I would often get asked was this one, “When can I go back on my normal diet after I finished the candida cleanse?” So that to me is like someone being let out of the jail saying, “When can I go back on my normal offending? Now that I’ve been released from jail, I don’t need to be in here anymore. I’m out of jail now. I want to got back and offend in public again.” So if that’s the attitude, you’re always going to have a candida problem, you’re always going to have a gut problem. When you’ve spent time inside, not that I have, but if you spent time inside, it’s meant to rehabilitate you, make you think differently about your actions.
So when you are finally released to the public that you’re not going to be the person who needs to be thrown back in the slammer again. All right? If we did the same thing with dietary people, I think the prisons would be so full of people there’d be more people in jail than actually outside of jail. Okay, so we can’t do that with people eating food. But the point I’m trying to make here is you can’t go back to the ways you were when you had that problem, unless you’re one of those very, extremely rare people that had the most exemplary, amazingly perfect diet, the best diet in the world, but still got really sick.
And I have seen people similar to that. Now I’d mention their nationalities, but there’s a couple of nationalities I know of people, they’re not American by the way, or Canadian, or Australian, or New Zealand. They’re European. A particular country, two countries in particular, where I’ve seen some of the most sickest people with the healthiest diets, where they got so anxious about what they were eating that it actually created a disease in its own right. There was so anal and focused about their food. So don’t be like that either.
Life is not just about what you eat, it’s also about what you emotionally digest. There’s a lot more to it than just chewing chewing and pooing and pooing. I think you get my point. What was the question again? “When can I back on my normal diet?” Well, what defines a normal diet for you? Is it a bag of chips and a can of Coke for lunch? If that’s a normal diet, then well, you’re not going to have a good life really if you’re going to go back to that kind of food. So the whole idea about a candida cleanse is to take a good long hard look at your lifestyle and your diet and to make those changes that are required to get you back on track.
A normal diet, in my opinion, for I’m sitting for you, it would be basic diet, like all your vegetables, fruits, and lean meats. And some maybe seeds and nuts and grains. That to me is a normal, healthy diet. But every time I go to Los Angeles and I sit down there and have some lunch or dinner, what constitutes a normal diet for me compared to the average person in LA, it’s like being on moon. So you may have to rethink your normal diet. Rethink it, because if you are brought up like some of my clients in the States and in England that had been brought up just with pizzas seven days a week. I know some families like that. It’s going to be very hard for you to actually start eating things called vegetables. It’s not going to be easy.
One of my clients, a male in his late 20s said to me, he’s never eaten vegetables all his life. They make him spew. He can’t eat any veggies or fruits. He just eats frozen stuff and canned stuff. Very, very unwell man, unfortunately, but that’s how some people are brought up. And other clients I’ve had have been brought up entirely differently where the family cooked constantly at home. Everything was freshly prepared, different lifestyle. So you need to look at your culture, at your lifestyle, everything that you do and see what’s a good fit for you. What are the best foods for me under my circumstances? Now, I always encourage people to eat their best, but your best at some times may not be as best as it could be, but at least you tried.
All right. So that’s the basis of the basic healthy diet. Yeah. If you really want to go back to what you were doing, remember the offending part I spoke about. You can’t keep offending and then expect to be released to the public. And in your case, release to yourself because you’re going to end up really sick. By the time you get to my age, you’ll be in very poor health if you don’t make those changes. So yeah, it’s really up to you. I mean, it depends what you want out of life. Depends. It really depends. Some people expect the best, and some people are just happy to be symptom free. But I do encourage you to check out my other videos regarding eating, particularly the playlist. I think the diet playlist is quite extensive where I answer many questions about eating and drinking.